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Carrots and Sticks

其他書名	Targeting the Opposition in an Autocratic Regime
出版	ECONtribute, 2023
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HkAH0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Autocratic regimes can use carrots and/or sticks to prevent being overthrown by protests. Carrots, i.e. resource allocation, reduce the probability of protests, but cannot help to end them. Sticks, i.e. repression, reduce the probability that protests overthrow the regime, but also decrease its popularity. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I show that residential construction and military presence increase in protest municipalities after an uprising in 1953 in former East Germany. This cannot be explained by preexisting differences, demand for housing, or external warfare considerations. Carrots were furthermore used to counteract sticks' negative effect on popularity. More construction is associated with more regime support.