Who to Target? Strategic Elite Elimination in the Contest for Power

• In Event: Pacters & Protesters: Popular Pressure & Elite Control Amidst Regime Uncertainty

Brief Overview

This study formalizes the dictator's personalization of power vis-a-vis his elite allies. I analyze the conditions under which elites will work together to limit the dictator's attempts to personalize power.

Author

• Allison K Cuttner, Emory University