individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …

provide a historical overview that designates the Jewish kibbutz as the collective of democracy and the Russian …-Orthodox monastery as the collective of dictatorship. Assuming a collectivist economy, I solve the radical government and modernization …

This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two … is to show how a dictatorship can manipulate trade policy to maintain its grip on power in the face of permanent world …

analysis considers four scenarios: strong dictatorship, weak dictatorship, strong democracy and weak democracy. Each scenario … find that the equilibrium inflation rate that emerges under strong dictatorship and strong democracy is consistent with the … revenue-maximizing rate, while the rate that emerges under weak dictatorship or weak democracy exceeds the revenue …

individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …

In this paper, we create alternative measures of political instability, which capture movements only from dictatorship … to democracy and vice versa (consistent with the recent theoretical work by Acemoglu and Robinson) but, unlike older …

from both democracy and military dictatorship. …