One Bullet Property Rights: The Effect of Leader Death on Expropriation in Personalist and Nonpersonalist Autocracies

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Brief Overview

Autocracies vary greatly in their property rights. Exploiting exogenous turnover from terminal illnesses, we find that turnover causes expropriation only in regimes without intra-elite constraining institutions.

Author

• Timothy A Liptrot, Georgetown University