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Downward Accountability in Response to Collective Actions: The Political Economy of Public Goods Provision in China
Li, Yuan - Stockholm China Economic Research Institute, … - 2013
provincial leaders whose incentives to deliver public goods can either be explained as a result of upward accountability towards … the Center or downward accountability towards the citizens. The confounding factor of upward accountability is ruled out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690059
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Autocracy and the public: Mass revolts, winning coalitions, and policy control in dictatorships
Apolte, Thomas - 2015
Threats of mass revolts could effectively constrain a dictator's public policy if it were not for the collective-action problem. Mass revolts nevertheless happen, but they follow a stochastic pattern. We describe this pattern in a threshold model of collective action and integrate it into an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341087
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Abused rebels and winning coalitions: Regime change under the pressure of rebellions
Apolte, Thomas - 2015
solving the collective action problem that may otherwise restrain them in revolting against an incumbent. Recent selectorate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487863
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Gordon Tullock's theory of dictatorship and revolution
Apolte, Thomas - 2015
We assess Gordon Tullock's work on dictatorship and revolutions using a common analytic framework that captures the dynamics of mutually reinforcing perceptions within a potentially rebelling subgroup of a population. We can reconstruct all of Tullock's central findings but we also find him...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487864
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Autocracy and the public : mass revolts, winning coalitions, and policy control in dictatorships
Apolte, Thomas - 2015
Threats of mass revolts could effectively constrain a dictator's public policy if it were not for the collective-action problem. Mass revolts nevertheless happen, but they follow a stochastic pattern. We describe this pattern in a threshold model of collective action and integrate it into an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336491
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Gordon Tullock's theory of dictatorship and revolution
Apolte, Thomas - 2015
We assess Gordon Tullock's work on dictatorship and revolutions using a common analytic framework that captures the dynamics of mutually reinforcing perceptions within a potentially rebelling subgroup of a population. We can reconstruct all of Tullock's central findings but we also find him...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487522
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Abused rebels and winning coalitions : regime change under the pressure of rebellions
Apolte, Thomas - 2015
solving the collective action problem that may otherwise restrain them in revolting against an incumbent. Recent selectorate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487527
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A Model of Chinese Central Government : The Role of Reciprocal Accountability
Gilli, Mario - 2013
support of the selectorate to hold on to power. Our main result is that in autocracies without electoral discipline, to … restrain the opportunistic behavior of a leader, the size of the selectorate should be intermediate: if too small, the … selectorate is captured by the leader and has no disciplinary role; if too big, the leader s incentives are diluted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079349
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Global Insecurity, Transparency and Sustainable Development : African Challenges
Nwaobi, Godwin Chukwudum - 2013
Notably, the 20th century was dominated by the legacy of devastating global wars, colonial struggles, and ideological conflicts as well as effort s to establish international systems that would foster global peace and prosperity. Yet, insecurity and corruption not only remain, they have become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155224
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Transitions and Political Stability in Autocracies. The Role of Public Perception
Gilli, Mario; Li, Yuan - 2018
intermediate level an increment in opacity might actually increase the likelihood of a selectorate coup. Finally, also the expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014112583