Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Zhavoronkov, Sergey; Zatcovecky, Ilia - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2013
“Improvements” in the mechanisms of democracy for making decisions about providing taxpayer-financed public goods can lead the economy in the same direction as authoritarianism. Such a by-product may be insignificant, but, even if so, a tradition of abridging democracy, similarly to an...