This short note constructs Mobility Zones to facilitate the discussion on the geographic extent of individual mobility … restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19. Mobility Zones are disjoint sets of counties where a given level of individual … mobility directly or indirectly connects all counties within each set. I compute Mobility Zones for the United States and each …

We develop an informational theory of dictatorship. Dictators survive not because of their use of force or ideology but … infer it from signals inherent in their living standards, state propaganda, and messages sent by an informed elite via … invest in making convincing state propaganda, censoring independent media, co-opting the elite, or equipping police to …

political power, the elite, choose policies to increase their income and to directly or indirectly transfer resources from the … revenue extraction, factor price manipulation and political consolidation. Namely, the elite may pursue inefficient policies … factor prices, and to impoverish other groups competing for political power. The elite%u2019s preference over inefficient …

means to protect the economic interests of the once ruling elite. Under quot;democratic federalismquot; the constitution … creates an annual policy game where the new majority and the elite each control one policy instrument of importance to the … other. The game has a stable, stationary equilibrium that the elite may prefer to autocratic rule. We apply our analysis to …

This paper develops a politico-economic model for use in studying the role of intra-elite conflict in the simultaneous … are involved: two elite groups and workers, whose preferences regarding trade policy and income taxation are derived from … a simple open-economy model. The critical point is that income taxation induces a rich-poor/elite-workers political …