Cambridge University Press - Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy
- This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy
- Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources
- Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens
- But opposed by elites
- Dictatorship nevertheless is not stable when citizens can threaten social disorder and revolution
- In response
- When the costs of repression are sufficiently high and promises of concessions are not credible
- Elites may be forced to create democracy
- By democratizing
- Elites credibly transfer political power to the citizens
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