Replication data for: Chapter 9: The Enemy Outside and Within: War and Changes of Leaders and Regimes

Considering this political puzzle, they also answer the related economic question of why some countries experience successful economic development and others do not. The authors construct a provocative theory on the selection of leaders and present specific formal models from which their central claims can be deduced.

They show how political leaders allocate resources and how institutions for selecting leaders create incentives for leaders to pursue good and bad public policy. They also extend the model to explain the consequences of war on political survival. Throughout the book, they provide illustrations from history, ranging from ancien t Sparta to Vichy France, and test the model against statistics gathered from cross-national data.