Dictators Walking the Mogadishu Line : How Men Become Monsters and Monsters Become Men

History offers many examples of dictatorswho worsened their behavior significantly over time (like Zimbabwe’s Mugabe) as well as dictators who displayed remarkable improvements (like Rawlings of Ghana).We show that such mutations can result from rational behavior when the dictator’s flow use of repr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Larcom, Shaun, Sarr, Mare, Willems, Tim
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33528