...Jasper Cooper Using two large cross-national micro datasets on extortion and commodity flows, I provide evidence of corruption cycles around elections in five West African states. In democracies but not in autocracies, police and other officials extort bribes that are 30% higher in the buildup...

... political economy game theory autocracy comparative politics When Japan occupied Taiwan in 1895, to control local residents, the Japanese encountered intense anti-occupier activities from the Taiwanese. To controlling local residents, the Japanese authorities adopted a collective responsibility...

... this type of favoritism in the allocation of jobs, since even if they do not benefit directly, nepotism creates a class of individuals invested in the current power structure. This paper extends and improves upon the existing literature on corruption, business-government relations, and autocracy...