What is the effect of foreign aid on the survival of autocratic regimes? Extant work about the effect of foreign aid on the recipient's political regime has come to contradictory conclusions. Current findings display the full spectrum of possibilities from a democratizing effect to the...

I argue that whether or not a state is predatory hinges on the relationship between development and the distribution of political power in society. Development is typically inconsistent with the preservation of the political status quo and this gives those who initially hold political power an...