Turnover in Power as a Restraint on Investing in Influence: Evidence from the Postcommunist Transition
We develop and implement a method for measuring the frequency of changes in power among distinct leaders and ideologically distinct parties that is comparable across political systems. We find that in the postcommunist countries, more frequent changes in power in the early years of transition are as...
Main Authors: | Milanovic, Branko, Hoff, Karla, Horowitz, Shale |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | EN |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4775 |
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