Jumping the Gun: How Dictators Got Ahead of Their Subjects
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Abstract Economic modernisation is widely seen as a path to democracy, but the technological progress that drives also provides rulers with new means of repression. We collect data on international diffusion 29 repressive military technologies, and demonstrate such technologies spread faster from Western Europe United States than economic development. Moreover, in panel all independent countries period 1820–2010, we show rapid has impeded democratisation around world, by allowing autocratic suppress popular resistance against their regimes.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Economic Journal
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1742-0350', '0013-0133', '1468-0297']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueac073