Dictatorship

Ronald Wintrobe

Chapter 21 in Readings in Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy, 2008, pp 345-367 from Springer

Abstract: The literature which takes a public choice approach to dictatorship, largely barren before 1990 except for Tullock’s Autocracy (1987), is now growing and may be entering a period of prosperity. This survey focuses on the most recent literature, and on three questions in particular: (1) The behavior of dictators, including the strategies that dictators use to stay in power; (2) The relative efficiency of dictatorship: Which is better, dictatorship or democracy, in promoting economic growth and efficiency?; and (3) What policies should the democracies adopt to deal with dictatorships if they are interested in promoting freedom?

Keywords: Public Choice; Trade Agreement; American Political Science Review; Democratic Politician; Economic Sanction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-75870-1_21

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