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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Page 58

by Daron Acemoglu


  King Richard

  kleptocratic regimes

  Kuhn-Tucker form

  Kusnetz curve

  countries experiencing

  labor

  abundance of

  activism

  dictatorships and

  forced

  income and

  markets

  production, substitution, and

  role of

  share

  taxation on

  Labour Party

  Laffer Curve

  Lagrangean functions

  land

  abundance of

  coups cost on

  elite’s investments in

  inelastic supply of

  landowners and

  redistribution of

  society and

  substitution

  landowners

  aristocratic

  conflicts of

  dictatorships and

  industrialists v.

  land held by

  utilities of

  Langrangean functions

  Latin America

  coups in

  democracy’s decline in

  democratization of

  dictatorships in

  experience of

  fiscal policy in

  fiscal volatility in

  male suffrage and

  voting rights established in

  leaky bucket

  Lee Hsien Loong

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Legitimists

  Liberal Democratic Party of Japan

  liberalization

  democratization and

  French

  political

  Liberal Party

  Lindman, Arvid

  Lipset, Seymour M.

  lobbying

  The Logic of Collective Action (Olson)

  López Pumarejo, Alfonso

  Lord Derby. See Stanley, Edward

  losers/winners

  policies of

  Luddite Riots of 3

  majoritarian policy

  electoral systems and

  globalization and

  Malthusian cycle

  Mandela, Nelson

  constitutional court appointed by

  prison release of

  manufacturing

  income and

  quality of products in

  markets

  distortion of

  labor

  Markovian strategies

  nature of

  non-

  restrictions to

  revolution averted by non-

  Markov perfect equilibria

  advantage of

  characterization of

  commitment problems

  focus on

  pure strategy

  Marshall, Alfred

  Mauritius

  democratic consolidation in

  political conflict in

  media

  PAP’s control of

  median individual

  median voters

  ideal point of

  middle class

  model

  MVT and

  preferences of

  taxation and

  trade-offs for

  Median Voter Theorem (MVT)

  argument behind.

  median voters and

  policy predictions of

  single-peaked preferences and

  Michels, Robert

  middle class. See also bourgeoisie

  as buffer

  democratic consolidation and

  democratization and

  disenfranchisement

  enfranchisement

  importance of

  median voter

  redistribution favored by

  relative wealth of

  repression’s use by

  rich’s coalition with

  strengthening of

  taxation and

  Tory party and

  military

  coup

  elites and

  governments

  junta

  politics

  Mitre, Bartolomé

  mobility

  capital

  social

  model(s)

  collective decision-making

  democratization’s

  direct democracy

  Downsian

  full-dynamic

  game-theoretic

  Heckscher-OIin

  infinite horizon

  median voter

  open economy

  political-economy

  probabilistic voting

  pure redistribution

  redistributive politics

  reduced-form

  revolution

  static

  three-class

  trade

  two-class

  workhorse

  modernization theory

  O’Donnell’s attack of

  Moore, Barrington

  bourgeoisie emphasized by

  MVT. See Median Voter Theorem

  Myanmar. See Burma

  Napoleon

  Nash equilibrium

  subgame perfect

  uniqueness of

  nature

  decision by

  taxation reset by

  networks, buyer/supplier

  Nicaragua

  dictatorship of

  nineteenth century

  Britain in

  democratization’s start in

  disenfranchisement in

  inequalities rise in

  nondemocracy

  challenges to

  citizen’s disenfranchisement by

  commitment problem in

  constraints in

  democracy v.

  destabilization of

  disenfranchised citizens in

  divergent paths of

  egalitarian nature of

  elites and

  equilibrium policies

  Germany and

  inefficiency of

  living conditions in

  policy determination in

  political power in

  regimes in

  repressive

  Singapore’s

  South Africa’s

  taxation and

  transitions to

  normalization

  North, Douglass

  Occam’s razor

  appeal to

  preferences and

  reliance on

  October Manifest (Witte)

  O’Donnell, Guillermo

  OECD. See Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

  Olson, Mancur C.

  one-dimensional policies

  one-shot deviation principle

  Ongania, Juan Carlos

  open economy model

  Orange Free State

  Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

  organizations, economic

  Orleanists

  oscillations

  equilibrium

  society’s

  Palmerston, Henry John Temple

  Panama

  PAN. See Partido Autonomista Nacional

  PAP. See People’s Action Party

  Pareto criterion

  Paris Commune

  parliamentary democracy

  presidential v.

  partial democracy

  emergence of

  full to

  poor’s rights in

  rich’s choosing of

  Partido Autonomista Nacional (PAN)

  partisan parties

  electoral competition, probabilistic voting, and

  paths

  equilibrium

  nondemocracy’s divergent

  political development’s

  political institution’s

  payoffs

  coup’s

  dictatorship’s

  elite’s

  expected

  repression’
s

  revolution’s

  Peasants Revolt of 1381

  People’s Action Party (PAP)

  media control by

  voting influenced by

  Perón, Isabel

  Perón, Juan Domingo

  first government of

  Peru

  Tupac Amaru Rebellion in

  Peterloo Massacre

  philosophy

  apartheid’s

  political

  physical capital

  Pinochet, Augusto

  constitution of

  Plato

  pluralistically-based society

  policy. See also majoritarian policy

  Britain’s colonial.

  citizen’s altering

  concessions

  concessions of

  convergence

  educational

  equilibrium

  institutions v.

  labor-market policies

  majoritarian

  one-dimensional

  politicians noncommitment to

  pro-citizen

  winners/losers

  Policy Convergence with Partisan Politics

  Policy Nonconvergence with Partisan Politics and No Commitment

  Policy Nonconvergence with Partisan Politics and Probabilistic Voting

  political-economy model

  Political Parties (Michels)

  politicians

  noncommitment of

  politics

  conflictual nature of

  military

  redistributive

  Polity index

  poor

  conflict within

  partial democracy and

  revolution of

  rich v.

  taxation and

  possibility/impossibility theorem

  postrevolutionary society

  power, political

  allocation of

  attainment of

  citizen’s gaining

  commitment and

  concessions and

  credibility and

  de facto

  defined

  de jure

  democracy/democratization, and

  distribution of

  fight for

  gaining of

  institutions and

  locking in

  loss of

  maintaining

  monopoly of

  nondemocracy and

  nonusage of

  political institutions and

  shift in

  transitory nature of

  working classes and

  predictions

  Heckshcer-Olin model

  MVT

  Proposition 150

  preference-aggregation problems

  preferences. See also single-peaked preferences

  aggregation of

  citizen’s

  for democracy

  elite’s

  induced

  median voter’s

  modeling

  Occam’s razor and

  partisan

  political institutions and

  regime

  relative worthiness of

  for revolution

  society’s

  tax rate

  presidential democracy

  parliamentary v.

  pressure, social

  Principles of Economics (Marshall)

  probabilistic voting

  electoral competition, partisan parties, and

  existence of equilibrium and

  model

  swing voters and

  Probabilistic Voting Theorem

  problems

  breaking down of

  maximization

  organizing revolutions

  preference-aggregation

  social-choice

  production

  capitalist

  domestic factors of

  labor, substitution, and

  structure of

  programming, dynamic

  promises

  credibility of

  elite’s

  incentive-compatible

  of lower taxation

  noncredibility of

  redistribution

  regime’s

  reneging on

  revolution and

  proportional representation

  Proposition 4.1. See Median Voter Theorem (MVT)

  Proposition 4.2. See Downsian Policy Convergence Theorem

  Proposition 5.1

  Proposition 5.2

  Proposition 5.3

  alternative form of

  prediction of

  Proposition 5.4 v.

  strategies described by

  Proposition 5.4

  Proposition 5.3 v.

  Proposition 5.5

  revolution’s avoidance and

  Proposition 6.1

  conclusion drawn from

  Proposition 6.2’s similarities with

  Proposition 6.5’s similarities with

  Proposition 6.2

  Proposition 6.1’s similarities with

  Proposition 6.3

  Proposition 6.4

  Proposition 6.5

  Proposition 6.1’s similarities with

  Proposition 6.6

  Proposition 7.1

  Proposition 7.2

  Proposition 7.3

  Proposition 8.1

  Proposition 8.2

  Proposition 8.3

  Proposition 8.4

  Proposition 8.5

  Proposition 9.1

  Proposition 9.3

  Proposition 9.4

  Proposition 9.5

  Proposition 10.1

  globalization and

  Proposition 10.2

  globalization and

  Proposition 10.3

  Proposition 10.4

  Proposition 10.5

  Proposition A1. See Probabilistic Voting Theorem

  Proposition A.2. See Grossman-Helpman Lobbying Equilibrium

  Proposition A.3

  Proposition A.4. See Policy Convergence with Partisan Politics

  Proposition A.5. See Policy Nonconvergence with Partisan Politics and Probabilistic Voting

  Proposition A.6. See Policy Nonconvergence with Partisan Politics and No Commitment

  Propositions 10.1

  globalization and

  Propositions 10.2

  globalization and

  prosperity, economic

  democratization and

  Prussian Junkers

  Public Safety Act of 1953

  punishment

  citizens and

  elite’s

  revolution as

  strategies

  Putilov Iron Works

  racial domination

  Radical Party

  Argentina’s

  Raffles, Stamford

  rational choice

  Real Stock Market Index

  redemocratizations

  redistribution. See also Director’s law of income redistribution

  asset

  benefits of

  Britain and

  cost of

  democratization’s influence on

  determinants of

  Director’s law of

  elite’s giving

  incentive-compatible promises and

  income

  inequality and

  international trade and

  land

  limiting

  middle class favoring of

  models of pure

  politics and

  promise of

  repression and

  revolution’s influence on

  rich promise of

  surplus reduced by

  taxation and

  temporary

  variability

  Redistribution Act of 1885

  redistributive politics

  median voter model of

  two-class model of

  red
uced-form model

  reforms

  Disraeli’s

  First Reform Act of 1832

  French political

  Sáenz Pefia’s

  Second Reform Act

  Third Reform Act of 1884

  regime(s)

  arising of

  authoritarian

  challenging

  changes

  classification of

  Germany’s nondemocratic

  kleptocratic

  nondemocratic

  preferences over

  promises of

  transitions of

  Rendel Commission

  Representation of the People Act of 1918

  representative democracy

  repression

  Cold War and

  cost of

  democracy and

  democratization or

  desirability of

  elites and

  failure of

  implications of

  income influenced by

  industrialist’s cost of

  middle class and

  nondemocracy and

  payoffs from

  redistribution and

  resources wasted by

  rich’s use of

  situations of

  softliners v. hardliners and

  success of

  value of

  resources

  allocation of

  elites transfer of

  repression’s wasting of

  revolution. See also revolution constraint

  avoidance of

  benefits of

  citizen’s attraction to

  collective action and

  communist

  concessions in face of

  constraints

  democratization and

  disruption and

  economy’s influence on

  elite’s prevention of

  equilibrium

  inequality, political instability, and

  inter-group inequality and

  long-term influence of

  models of

  nature of

  net gain from

  non-Markovian strategies influence on

  payoffs

  preference for

  problems organizing

  promises and

  Proposition 5.5 and

  as punishment

  redistribution influenced by

  returns from

  tax-smoothing and

  threat of

  value of

  Vietnamese

  Zimbabwe’s

  revolution constraint

  binding

  inequality and

  nonbinding

  rich. See also wealth

  concession’s use by

  democratization options of

  middle class coalition with

  partial democracy chosen by

  poor v.

  redistribution promised by

  repression’s use by

  riots

  The Rise and Decline of Nations (Olson)

  Rokkan, Stein

  role

  of inter-group equality

  labor’s

  of political institutions

  of proletariat

  Russell, John

  Russia. See also Assembly of Russian Workers

  Russian Revolution

  Rwanda

  Sáenz Peña Law

  Sáenz Peña, Roque

  male suffrage established by

  manipulations by

  reforms under

  Sandinista Revolution

  Sarmiento, Domingo

  Schumpeter, Joseph

 

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