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| Title: | | Chance of revolts and ability of oppressions: a comment on the Acemoglu-Robinson model  |
| Authors: | | Saito, Tetsuya |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Economics Discussion Papers 2010-7 |
| Abstract: | | In the original framework of Professors Acemoglu and Robinson, the government is unable to oppress the revolution once it is brought about. However, actual civil wars are unpredictable. With this notion, I introduce uncertainty depending on military expenditures of the government. Then an interesting argument follows: if the likelihood of successful oppression is sufficiently larger than a certain level of destruction rate and there are cheap-but-effective devices such as biochemicals, citizens in a dictatorial country may have a trade-off between economic prosperity and domestic military threats. |
| Subjects: | | Military expenditures Acemoglu-Robinson model war of attrition |
| JEL: | | C72 H56 |
| Appears in Collections: | | Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal - Discussion Papers
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