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The Tinpot and the Totalitarian: An Economic Theory of Dictatorship

Ronald Wintrobe · American Political Science Review 84(3), 849–872 · 1990

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Ronald Wintrobe
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DOI 10.2307/1962769

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TheoryWintrobe's 1990 model contrasts a 'tinpot' dictator, who seeks only to minimise the cost of staying in power and enjoy its fruits, with a 'totalitarian' dictator, who maximises power over the population, and shows that they respond differently to economic change.