The Political Economy of Dictatorship

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Acknowledgements Part I. Introduction: 1. The problem 2. The dictator's dilemma Part II. Equilibrium Political Repression: 3. The tinpot and the totalitarian 4. Tyranny and timocracy 5. A more general model Part III. Economics of Autocracy: 6. The economy of dictatorship 7. Redistribution and rent-seeking 8. Apartheid 9. The bureaucratic economy I: the model 10. The bureaucratic economy II: rise and fall Part IV. The Dynamics of Dictatorship: 11. Democracy in the inaction zone 12. Ethnic conflict and nationalism: from expressionism and futurism to kitsch 13. The simple economics of criminal bureaucratic responsibility Part V. Conclusion: 14. The machinery of dictatorship References Indexes.