Jonathon P Sine
"The refusal of one decent man outweighs the acquiescence of the multitude."
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Authoritarian regimes are unstable. But a certain type is not: those that arose via social revolution. The latter on average survive ~three times as long. https://t.co/Aevkw1HWLS
China's success in large part owes to local governments "experimenting under hierarchy." Xi's centralization, many argue, is upending that model. But analysis of ~5,000 central di...
The year 2022, in books! My top ten: #1 - The Old Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville Maybe the best book I've ever read. Brimming with insight on the human condi...
βThe Rise and Fall of Imperial Chinaβ by Yuhua Wang is a grand feat of a book. It covers an immense amount of history, undertakes extensive empirical work, and develops a powerful...