We posit a rational choice model of dictatorship to explain the tendency of dictators to repress innocent citizens. This model demonstrates that, when the quality of information about regime enemies is low, a rational dictator will knowingly kill and imprison citizens who are not real enemies....

Damned if you do--damned if you don't : the collaboration dilemma in business during war and under dictatorship / Joachim Lund -- Die "Neuordnung" des europäischen "Grosswirtschaftsraumes" : deutsche Pläne und Realität / Dietrich Eichholtz -- Thesen und Desiderata zur ökonomischen...

While people in democracies can vote their government out when they are discontent with its policies, those in dictatorships cannot do so. They can only attempt to expel the dictator via mass protests or revolutions. Based on a general cause-and-effect mechanism, the author analyzes whether such...