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The political economy of dictatorship

1. The problem -- 2. The Dictator's Dilemma -- 3. The tinpot and the totalitarian -- 4. Tyranny and timocracy -- 5. A more general model -- 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 -- 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 -- 14. The machinery of dictatorship
Print Book, English, 2000
1st paperback ed View all formats and editions
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000
x, 390 p. ; 24 cm
9780521583299, 9780521794497, 0521583292, 0521794498
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