... Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and his coauthors point out that leaders of democracies must deal with larger support ... in author- itarian states, where we would expect the primary audience to be concentrated in the policy-making elite ...

... in author- itarian regimes primarily function not to enhance the accountability of the regime but to strengthen ... Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and his colleagues (e.g., Bueno de Mesquita and Smith 2011; Bueno de Mesquita et al. 2003) ...

People's Power, Preferences, and Perceptions Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. racies tends to reside in the hands of the population at large , which is not true in author- itarian states . In Chapter 12 we will see why this is so and how such ...

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