In 2020, Venezuela has gone through a process of autocratic consolidation. This consolidation taken place amid substantial economic reforms that have allowed the government Nicolás Maduro survive sustained international and domestic pressure. this article, we analyze We explain how, by focusing on establishment an “interim-government” in 2019, Venezuelan opposition been unable to coordinat...

Informed consent is increasingly heralded as an ethical panacea, a tool to counter autocratic and paternalistic medical practices. Debate about the implementation of informed consent is constricted and polarised, centring on the right of individuals to be fully informed and to freely choose versus an autocratic, paternalistic practice that negates individual choice. A bioethical framework, base...

Why did some developing country governments accumulate large foreign debt burdens in the late twentieth century while others did not? I hypothesize that variation in foreign indebtedness is a product of the impact of regime type on government borrowing and investment decisions. Autocratic regimes will borrow more from foreign lenders and invest fewer of these funds in public goods than democrat...

Despite a long-standing controversy about aid-effectiveness in general and the impact of aiddependency on governance in particular, little is known on the effect of donors policies on civic agency for democratization in aid dependent autocratic regimes. In this study it is argued that the long-term effects of double-talk of donors, who openly promote democracy and freedom but covertly follow ov...