Abstract
The paper investigates empirically the determinants of political stability in one-party states, taking as an example socialist Yugoslavia. We assume that the number of the Party members is an indicator of the stability of the regime and perform a time series analysis for the six Yugoslav republics in the 1953-1988 period. We find that rents distributed to the population were far more important than the popularity of economic policies and perhaps even more important than repression. These findings provide strong empirical support for economic models of dictatorship based on the notion of political exchange.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 117-134 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Public Choice |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
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| State | Published - 1998 |