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If members of a winning coalition get "paid" with things like money, special legal
protections or special business advantages, then this is an example of the
government providing:
private goods
What is the expected payoff for the Regime from Cancel Elections ?
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To say something is non-rivalrous means what?
Non-rivalrous means the value of a good does not diminish with others' consumption.
If you were a moderate religious party poised to win the elections, would you
want the Regime to believe that you were moderate or radical?
moderate
If the Regime believes that the Religious Party is moderate with a probability of
0.5, will it choose to hold elections, cancel elections, or will it be indifferent
between these two actions?
Cancel elections
, What is the expected payoff for the Regime from Hold Elections ?
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If the Regime believes that the Religious Party is moderate with a probability of
0.75, will it choose to hold elections, cancel elections, or will it be indifferent
between these two actions?
be indifferent
If members of a winning coalition get "paid" with things like national security,
rule of law, primary and secondary education, then this is an example of the
government providing:
public goods
Which one of the following is a public good?
A fireworks display
When will leaders have an incentive to provide public goods?
When W is large
According to the Selectorate theory, when are the members of the winning
coalition likely to have the highest loyalty to their leader?
When W/S is small
Suppose that a political raises $1 billion in tax revenue. Assume that the size of
the winning coalition is 250,000 and the size of the selectorate is 50 million.
If the leader were to spend all of the tax revenue on providing private goods, what