Who Needs Strong Leaders?

Mark Gradstein and Alberto Chong

No 1610, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This papers model suggests that a strong leader, sometimes with little legislative oversight, may nevertheless benefit from public support. The argument is that this support is induced as an attempt by the poor to counter the subversion of public protection of property rights by the rich, and to achieve this goal they are often willing to pay the price of the leaders diversion of tax revenues for private use. The paper then examines survey data on individual attitudes toward strong leadership and finds their pattern to be consistent with the models predictions; specifically, support for strong leadership is inversely related to individual income and to countrywide income inequality.

Keywords: WP-628 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-01
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