'This is an important book and essential reading for students of democratization, especially, but alas! not exclusively, the democratization of authoritarian regimes.' Peter Calvert, University of Southampton

• Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. The problem; 2. The dictator's dilemma; Part II. Equilibrium Political Repression: 3. The tinpot and the totalitarian; 4. Tyranny and timocracy; 5. A more general model; Part III. Economics of Autocracy: 6. The economy of dictatorship; 7. Redistribution and rent-seeking; 8. Apartheid; 9. The bureaucratic economy I: the model; 10. The bureaucratic economy II: rise and fall; Part IV. The Dynamics of Dictatorship: 11. Democracy in the inaction zone; 12. Ethnic conflict and nationalism: from expressionism and futurism to kitsch; 13. The simple economics of criminal bureaucratic responsibility; Part V. Conclusion: 14. The machinery of dictatorship; References; Indexes.

'This is an important book and essential reading for students of democratization, especially, but alas! not exclusively, the democratization of authoritarian regimes.' Peter Calvert, University of Southampton

• Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. The problem; 2. The dictator's dilemma; Part II. Equilibrium Political Repression: 3. The tinpot and the totalitarian; 4. Tyranny and timocracy; 5. A more general model; Part III. Economics of Autocracy: 6. The economy of dictatorship; 7. Redistribution and rent-seeking; 8. Apartheid; 9. The bureaucratic economy I: the model; 10. The bureaucratic economy II: rise and fall; Part IV. The Dynamics of Dictatorship: 11. Democracy in the inaction zone; 12. Ethnic conflict and nationalism: from expressionism and futurism to kitsch; 13. The simple economics of criminal bureaucratic responsibility; Part V. Conclusion: 14. The machinery of dictatorship; References; Indexes.

'This is an important book and essential reading for students of democratization, especially, but alas! not exclusively, the democratization of authoritarian regimes.' Peter Calvert, University of Southampton

• Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. The problem; 2. The dictator's dilemma; Part II. Equilibrium Political Repression: 3. The tinpot and the totalitarian; 4. Tyranny and timocracy; 5. A more general model; Part III. Economics of Autocracy: 6. The economy of dictatorship; 7. Redistribution and rent-seeking; 8. Apartheid; 9. The bureaucratic economy I: the model; 10. The bureaucratic economy II: rise and fall; Part IV. The Dynamics of Dictatorship: 11. Democracy in the inaction zone; 12. Ethnic conflict and nationalism: from expressionism and futurism to kitsch; 13. The simple economics of criminal bureaucratic responsibility; Part V. Conclusion: 14. The machinery of dictatorship; References; Indexes.