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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Dictatorship is the predominant political system in many developing countries. However, different dictators act quite …