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Gehlbach, S. (2018). What is next for the study of non-democracy? In C. Ménard & M. M. Shirley (Eds.), A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics (pp. 20–26). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112512.00009
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Gehlbach, Scott. “What Is next for the Study of Non-Democracy?” In A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics, edited by Claude Ménard and Mary M. Shirley, 20–26. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.
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Gehlbach, Scott. “What Is next for the Study of Non-Democracy?” A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics, edited by Claude Ménard and Mary M. Shirley, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, pp. 20–26, doi:10.4337/9781788112512.00009.
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@incollection{gehlbach2018a,
title = {What is next for the study of non-democracy?},
year = {2018},
address = {Cheltenham, UK},
pages = {20--26},
publisher = {Edward Elgar Publishing},
doi = {10.4337/9781788112512.00009},
author = {Gehlbach, Scott},
editor = {Ménard, Claude and Shirley, Mary M.},
booktitle = {A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics}
}
The vast majority of the world's population has always had limited access to political (and economic) institutions. Yet until recently the overwhelming share of intellectual effort in political economy, if not always new institutional economics, was devoted to the study of mature democracies. This imbalance has begun to be reversed, and with vigor. Much of the contemporary literature on nondemocracy falls into two broad areas of inquiry: a) the analysis of formal institutions such as elections, parties, and legislatures, and b) the study of autocratic control, typically through the manipulation of beliefs. Scholars of NIE will recognize in this characterization a familiar divide between formal institutions, on the one hand, and social norms and beliefs, on the other. From my perspective, the most promising opportunities for research lie in a truly comparative analysis of the formal institutions of nondemocracy and the study of how these institutions interact with social norms and practices.