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Bove, Vincenzo, Platteau, Jean-Philippe and Sekeris, Petros G. (2017) Political repression in autocratic regimes. Journal of Comparative Economics, 45 (2). pp. 410-428. doi:10.1016/j.jce.2016.11.004 ISSN 0147-5967.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2016.11.004
Abstract
Theoretical models on autocracies have long grappled with how to characterize and analyze state sponsorship of repression. Moreover, much of the existing formal literature sees dictators’ behavior as determined by one type of opposition actor alone and disregards the potential role played by other types of actors. We develop a contest model of political survival with a ruler, the elite and the opposition, and show how the ruler needs to respond to revolutionary pressures while securing the allegiance of his own supportive coalition. We find that the ruler’s reliance on vertical and horizontal repression is antithetically affected by the country’s wealth and the optimal bundle of vertical and horizontal repression has important consequences for the regime’s political vulnerability. Our hypothesis about the impact of wealth on repression is strongly borne out by the empirical results, which are robust to endogeneity concerns.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Political persecution -- Mathematical models, Despotism | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Comparative Economics | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0147-5967 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | May 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 45 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 410-428 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jce.2016.11.004 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 November 2016 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 November 2018 |
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