No Elite Left Behind: How a Large Productivity Gap Encourages Rent-Seeking and Erodes Democracy

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Elites, Elections, and Scandals: New Theories and Methods

Brief Overview

A large productivity gap encourages rent seeking from a set of elites in low-productivity sectors. These groups them support a political opportunist who concentrates power in his hands and erodes democratic norms and procedures.

Author

• Joan Timoneda, University of Maryland-College Park