Does the «tsar of the mountain» need good institutes?
Abstract
The critical appraisal of the so-called widespread J-curve theory, which says that state institutes’ quality in authoritarian regimes is higher than in transitional and hybrid ones, is given in this article. Using World Governance Indicators the author shows that this rule doesn’t work at least in post-Soviet autocracies, as the institutes’ quality there is really low. The dependence between institutes’ quality and regime’s character is linear. An informal «tsar of the mountain» model, which explains why the post-Soviet autocrats as the monopolists in gaining political and economic rent are not motivated to create high-quality institutions, is given in the article.
Keywords
автократия,
демократия,
качество институтов,
J-кривая,
рента,
autocracy,
democracy,
institutions’ quality,
J-curve,
rent
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