Medium Strength and Less Ideologically Inclined Autocrats Make More Institutional Reform and Less Conflict

• In Event: External Influence and Domestic Authoritarian Politics

Brief Overview

Prominent theories of democratization revolve around the commitment problem in the face of a revolution. This paper tackles this problem by developing a redistributive model of democratization with reference to the bargaining failure literature.

Author

• Tariq Basir, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus