Autocratic Longevity and Economic Performance: Reframing the Loyalty-Competence Trade-off

• In Event: Authoritarianism and Democracy

Brief Overview

This paper uses a political agency and accountability model that ties the longevity-performance nexus in autocracies to the power struggle between autocrats and their closed subordinates. The model's predictions are consistent with observations.

Author

• Francis William Touola Meda, New York University