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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Selectorate Theory"”.
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Religion and the Evolution of Democracy: A Revised Selectorate Model for the Arab Spring
… time period.</p> <p>In tracking the evolution of selectorates, I identified the rise of actors within the newly developing coalitions whose Islamist preferences are unaccounted for in the standard Selectorate Model. As later explained in detail, Selectorate Theory is driven by the public-private …
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Religion and political survival: The regional strategies of Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar
… in response to the ‘Arab Spring’? Post-Secular Theory has focused on the role of religion in domestic politics, neglecting the international and regional sphere, whilst also disproportionately focusing on the West, neglecting, for instance, the Middle East. To address this gap in the literature, …
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Political legitimacy, citizens' mobilization, and leaders' survival
… I adopt a theoretical structure of the selectorate theory proposed by Bueno de Mesquita et al. (2003), but adapt it as well by focusing on the role of the masses. By using individual-level data sets such as the World Values Survey, Afro-Barometer, and Asian-Barometer (Chapter 3), and the …
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Does Selectorate Size Matter?: How the selectorate size of authoritarian regimes impacts trade levels
… whether the leader maintains power (their selectorate) is a determining factor in authoritarian states increasing their trade. Upon running a Generalized Least Squares regression, I conclude that when controlling for autocorrelation there is not a significant correlation between selectorate …