• DOI:10.1023/A:1005078532251
Corpus ID: 154097838

The Constitutional Economics of Autocratic Succession

@article{KurrildKlitgaard2000TheCE,
  title={The Constitutional Economics of Autocratic Succession},
  author={Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard},
  journal={Public Choice},
  year={2000},
  volume={103},
  pages={63-84}
}

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

Published 2000

Economics

Public Choice

The paper extends and empirically tests GordonTullock's public choice theory of the nature of autocracy. A simple model of the relationship between constitutional rules governing succession in autocratic regimes and the occurrence of coups against autocrats is sketched. The model is applied to a case study of coups against monarchs in Denmark in the period ca. 935–1849. A clear connection is found between the specific constitutional rules governing succession and the frequency of coups… CONTINUE READING

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