Is There Really a Dictator’s Dilemma? Information and Repression in Autocracy
Scott Gehlbach
University of Chicago
What is the "dictator's dilemma," and how does repression paradoxically make autocrats less secure by limiting information about public discontent? Scott Gehlbach examines this dynamic and its potential resolutions through a formal framework rooted in the political economy of nondemocracy.
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