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Selectorate Theory
Rulers serve exactly the coalition that keeps them in power, and no one else.
Rulers serve exactly the coalition that keeps them in power, and no one else. That is the claim, and it is the kind that looks obvious until we try to say where it stops. Where does it hold, where does it fail, and what changes once we can see it at work? That is a conversation, not a paragraph.
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- Collective Action
- Exit, Voice and Loyalty
- Institutions
- The Iron Law of Oligarchy
- Moral Hazard
- Peter Principle
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