The political economy of dictatorship / Ronald Wintrobe, University of Western Ontario
Although much of the world still lives today, as always, under dictatorship, the behaviour of these regimes and of their leaders often appears irrational and mysterious. In The Political Economy of Dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe uses rational choice theory to model dictatorships: their strategies for...
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| Hauptverfasser: | Wintrobe, Ronald (VerfasserIn) |
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne ; Madrid ; Cape Town ; Singapore ; São Paulo : Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
| Ausgabe: | First paperback edition |
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| Internet: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Inhaltsangabe |
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| Part I. Introduction |
| 1. The problem |
| 2. The dictator's Dilemma |
| Part II. Equilibrium political repression |
| 3. The tinpot and the totalitarian |
| 4. Tyranny and timocracy |
| 5. A more general model |
| Part III. Economics of democracy |
| 6. The economy of dictatorship |
| 7. Redistribution and rent-seeking |
| 8. Apartheid |
| 9. The bureaucratic economy I : the model |
| 10. The bureaucratic economy II : rise and fall |
| Part IV. The dynamics of dictatorship |
| 11. Democracy in the inaction zone |
| 12. Ethnic conflict and nationalism : from expressionism and futurism to kitsch |
| 13. The simple economics of criminal bureaucratic responsibility |
| Part V. Conclusion |
| 14. The machinery of dictatorship. |
