How Does External Debt Servicing Ability Affect The Stability of Electoral Authoritarian Regimes?

Pre - Election Mobilization and Electoral Outcome in Authoritarian Regimes

Deliberate Disengagement: How Education Can Decrease Political Participation in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes

A large literature examining advanced and consolidating democracies suggests that education increases political participation. However, in electoral authoritarian regimes, educated voters may instead deliberately disengage. If education increases critical capacities, political awareness, and support for democracy, educated citizens may believe that participation is futile or legitimates autocra...

The Debt Servicing Capacity Of

This study examines the interaction between external debt and economic growth, and analyses the sustainability of Nigeria’s foreign debt. Given the several reschedulings and persistent accumulation of the debt arrears, and consistently high debt burden ratios, it is doubtful if the debt burden can be judged as sustainable. This study employed analytical method and the findings from the analysis...

Does Leaders ’ Western Education Matter to Authoritarian Regimes ’ Reform ? (

Does Leaders’ Western Education Matter to Authoritarian Regimes’ Reform? (1960-2000) by Mingzhe Xu Department of Political Science Duke University Date:______________________ Approved: ________________________ Joseph Grieco, Supervisor ______________________ Emerson Niou _______________________ Bahar Leventoglu An abstract of a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the...

Modeling authoritarian regimes

In the past few years, a body of ideas based on political economy theory has been built up by North and Weingast, Olson, Przeworski, and Acemoglu and Robinson. One theme that emerges from this literature concerns the transition to democracy: why would dominant elites give up oligarchic power? This article addresses this question by considering a formal model of an authoritarian regime, and then...