Board #29 - Dual Selectorate Theory: Explaining Coups in Authoritarian States

• In Event: 74-304 - Poster Session: The State is Not Unitary: Regime Type, Domestic Politics, and IR

Brief Overview

This paper proposes a new model of authoritarian politics. It suggests governments’ stability and behavior depends on the balance of power between two unique Selectorates— one composed of military elites and another of economic elites.

Author

• Sean Bray, University of Pennsylvania