To what extent does the degree of authoritarian political support depend on collective memories of a past experience with democracy? And how costly is it for a dictator to manipulate such memories with the help of propaganda? In this paper, we develop a political economy model with endogenous...

Auch wenn die Sanktionen gegen Russland bis jetzt nicht die erhoffte politische Wirkung erzielt haben, lässt das, nach Ansicht von Thieß Petersen, Bertelsmann Stiftung, nicht auf ein Scheitern dieser Sanktionen schließen. Die Sanktionen zeigten bereits ökonomische Wirkungen, wobei die...

In this paper, we investigate differences in and determinants of technical efficiency across three groups of OECD, Asian and Latin American countries. As technical efficiency determines the capacity with which countries absorb technology produced abroad, these differences are important to...

In this paper, we investigate differences in and determinants of technical efficiency across three groups of OECD, Asian and Latin American countries. As technical efficiency determines the capacity with which countries absorb technology produced abroad, these differences are important to...

How do independent media affect regime support in an autocracy? We carry out two field experiments in Russia by promoting the country’s only independent online TV channel to a randomized sample of cities and individuals before the 2016 parliamentary elections. In both experiments, we find that...