How Modern Dictators Survive: An Informational Theory of the New Authoritarianism
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- H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HPE-2015-05-09 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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