This paper analyzes the economic foundations of a non-democratic political regime, where the ruling bureaucracy … equilibrium in the 'political labor market,' where the ruling bureaucracy buys services and political support of activists …

-person commission of top Soviet officials for an empirical investigation of resource allocation by a dictatorship. Two distinct models …

officials and industry size. -- institutional norms ; bureaucracy costs ; norm viability ; industry size … the latter context, we establish the fundamental inverse relationship between the costs of interaction with government …