Power-Sharing and Leadership Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes
@article{Svolik2008PowerSharingAL, title={Power-Sharing and Leadership Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes}, author={Milan W. Svolik}, journal={Public Choice \& Political Economy eJournal}, year={2008} }
I examine a fundamental problem of politics in authoritarian regimes: the dictator and the ruling coalition must share power and govern in an environment where political influence must be backed by a credible threat of violence. I develop a model of authoritarian politics in which power-sharing is complicated by this conflict of interest: by exploiting his position, the dictator may acquire more power at the expense of the ruling coalition, which may attempt to deter such opportunism by…
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