Board #28 - Do Autocracies Lie? A Comparative Analysis of Proclaimed GDP and Observable Indicators in Democracies and Autocratic Regimes

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

Brief Overview

Utilizing testable, non-manipulable proxies to identify accurate measures of GDP in democracies, and applying this methodology to autocratic states to assess the disparity between projected and proclaimed GDP figures.

Author

• Timothy Patrick Mullins, Wheaton College, IL