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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP15344 |
DP15344 The Political Economics of Non-democracy | |
Georgy Egorov; Konstantin Sonin | |
发表日期 | 2020-10-07 |
出版年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We survey recent theoretical and empirical literature on political economy of non-democracies. Dictators face many challenges to their rule: internal, such as palace coups or breakdown of their support coalition, or external, such as mass protests or revolutions. We analyze strategic decisions made by dictators --- hiring political loyalists to positions that require competence, restricting media freedom at the cost of sacrificing bureaucratic efficiency, running a propaganda campaign, organizing electoral fraud, purging associates and opponents, and repressing citizens --- as driven by the desire to maximize the regime's chances of staying in power. We argue that the key to understanding the functioning and ultimately the fate of a nondemocratic regime is the information flows within the regime, and the institutions that govern these information flows. |
主题 | Public Economics |
关键词 | Nondemocratic politics Dictatorship Bureaucracy Electoral fraud Revolutions Coup d'etat Media freedom Propaganda Censorship Repressions |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp15344 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/544326 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Georgy Egorov,Konstantin Sonin. DP15344 The Political Economics of Non-democracy. 2020. |
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