Crafting the Shield: Tariff, Support Coalitions, and Authoritarian Regime Stability

• In Event: International Trade: Coalitions, Complexity, and Compensation

Brief Overview

Using cross-national trade data from over 1,000 industries across 103 authoritarian regimes from 1988 to 2022, this paper explores how regimes use tariffs to balance support and opposition groups, reducing coup risks and enhancing regime stability.

Authors

• Yi-Kai Wang, National Chengchi University

• Wen-Chin Wu, Academia Sinica