A great challenge for capitalist development under authoritarian regimes is to effectively constrain predatory behavior. Beyond existing frameworks of the dictator's time horizon and institutionalized power sharing, we introduce an alternative perspective - elite cleavage. We argue that the...

Non-democracies are seen as inherently unstable because of the high frequency of irregular and often-violent leadership turnovers. Our tractable stochastic game model investigates authoritarian stability and instability by portraying a world in which dictators are forced to tolerate threatening...

Introduction / Victor C. Shih -- The domestic political implications of economic sanctions : evidence from Iraq under Saddam Hussein / Lisa Blaydes -- Economic shocks and communist survival and collapse / Martin K. Dimitrov -- Of eggs and stones : foreign sanctions and domestic political economy...