Show Opponents the Money: Targeted Co-optation in Electoral Authoritarianism

• In Event: Perspectives on the Political Economy of Development

Brief Overview

Improvements in information from elections may also promote opponents' welfare under authoritarianism. We find that dictators in South Korea also allocate industrial complexes for counties that cast fewer votes for them.

Authors

• Xingchen Lan, Stanford University

• Wenting Xu, University of Chicago