Democracy and the Threat of Kingmaking 1 Thorsten Janus
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This paper suggests a way to achieve democratic reforms at no cost despite resistance from incumbent power holders. The key idea is to reward a takeover by a challenger tomorrow if the incumbent does not democratize today. I also discuss democracy movements as challengers, credit constraints, credibility, renegotiation, collusion, reform blocking, democracy reversals, classical kingmaking, democracy-from-above, and contemporary Afghanistan and Iraq in relation to the model. Finally, I briefly discuss how the plan could work in practice. 1 Paper Presented at the North American Meetings of the Econometric Society, Boston MA, June4-7, 2009. I am grateful to seminar participants at the University of Wyoming and to Jake Kendall, Lauren Malone and Klaas vant’t Veld.
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