Wintrobe Ronald, Ronald Wintrobe

The Political Economy of Dictatorship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses rational choice theory to understand the behaviour of dictators.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780521794497
• ISBN-10: 0521794498
• Artikelnr.: 21803730

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
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 Autocracy: 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
References
Indexes.