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Authoritarian multiparty governments. [PDF]

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Bokobza L, Nyrup J.
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Making Autocracy Work [PDF]

open access: possible, 2008
One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangementsshape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - theforces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simpletheoretical model of accountability in the absence of regularized elections ...
Timothy Besley, Masayuki Kudamatsu
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Other Autocracies

2021
This chapter tackles autocracies, including the twelve democratic transitions that do not satisfy the strict criteria for the paths. Several are near-misses that fit the underlying logic of minimal power loss from democratization, while others are true outliers.
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Autocracy

2020
This chapter looks at autocracy as the concept most widely used to describe the political culture of the Russian state before 1917. It explains how autocracy, understood as the unlimited rule of the monarch over his subjects, is often taken as the signature characteristic of Russian political culture in general.
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Limited Autocracy

Review of Law & Economics, 2002
All politicians, regardless of the nominal form of government within which they operate, face the trade-off between current period gains and tenure extension. That is, rulers can exploit their power for personal gain, but they risk being removed from their positions of power, either through a popular vote or a coup or revolution.
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Autocracy

2016
Dictatorships have dominated global politics for hundreds of years, from the pharaohs of Egypt to the absolute monarchs of Europe. Though democracy has since spread to much of the world, about 40% of today’s countries are still ruled by dictatorship.
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Autocracy Promotion

2019
By analogy with democracy promotion, this chapter explores the concept of autocracy promotion, referring to policy measures that have the potential to influence another country’s political system with a view to hampering democratization processes or to fostering autocratic regimes.
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Autocracy Rising

2023
How Nicolás Maduro reinvented authoritarianism for the twenty-first centurVenezuela, which once enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century, has descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse.
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