Состоялось очередное заседание научного семинара "Политическая экономика"

"Why do dictators prosecute minorities? A model in a two-dimensional policy space" 
Докладчик: Арсений Самсонов  (РЭШ)

Аннотация

Under autocracy people are often prosecuted because of their ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. We present a model in the spirit of “Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy” by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson that explains why the dictatorship of the rich elite chooses lower levels of minority rights than a democratic regime. In particular, the model shows that even if the rich elite is the most tolerant social stratum, the infringement of rights may still take place, so the phenomenon is not explained by the autocrat’s malevolence. The basic intuition of our model is that because the dictatorship of the rich chooses lower taxes than a democracy, in the first case the poor are more inclined to participate in revolutionary activities. So, a dictator has to give some concessions in other policies, which results in providing lower minority rights, if the poor are sufficiently intolerant.


Заседание состоялось 23.12.2014 в 18:15 по адресу: г. Москва, улица Шаболовка, дом 26, корпус 4, аудитория 4322.