Exam 9: Varieties of Dictatorship

When we see a dictator removed from power, we are likely to see the dictator replaced by a dictator of a similar type:

BDM²S² argue that a leader's decision to provide (mostly) public versus (mostly) private goods is based on how civic-minded they are.

One way to describe the relationship between corruption and kleptocracy is to say that kleptocracy is corruption on a large scale-for example, when corruption is actually organized by a country's political leaders with the goal of their personal enrichment.

A dictatorship ruled by a "junta" is a:

If you were the leader, what type of institutions would you want to set up (assuming that you wanted to stay in power)?

Dictatorships that rely on their family and kin network to come to power and stay in power are called:

Let's say we want to apply the insights from the selectorate theory to analyze some question we have about democracies and dictatorships. In the language of the selectorate theory, the key factor that distinguishes democracies from dictatorships is the size of the winning coalition. If we further want to distinguish among dictatorships, we would examine the countries with small winning coalitions and look at variation over the size of the selectorate (so we would be comparing W/S).

Personalistic dictatorships are often characterized by which of the following?

Table l: Effect of W and W/S on Health Care Dependent variable: Government spending on health care as share of GDP. Independent variables Model 1 Model 2 Winning coalition 4.0(0.61) Selectorate -0.35(0.51) W/S 3.9(0.49) Constant 3.0(0.32) 2.8(0.33) N 1204 1204 0.22 0.22 GDP = gross domestic product. -Consider the results from Model 2 in Table 1, above. Does an increase in W/S significantly increase, decrease, or have no effect on the government spending on health care (measured as the share of GDP)?

If you were a member of the selectorate but not the winning coalition, what type of institutions would you want to set up (assuming that you wanted to receive as many goods as possible)?

To stay in power, leaders must keep members of their winning coalitions happy.

The most common form of dictatorship from 1946 to 2008 has always been: