We adapt the model of McGuire & Olson (1996), creating a rotating bandit model to investigate the economic effects of a polity consisting of a regularly changing autocrat with an encompassing interest but a finite time horizon. We apply our model by studying the relationship between electoral...

The CIA intervened regularly in Latin America politics during the Cold War, in some cases going as far as bringing about regime change. We study the economic, political, and civil society effects of CIA-sponsored regime change in five Latin American countries and find that these actions caused...