Expropriation risk and competition within the military

• Main Authors: ANEY, Madhav S., KO, Giovanni
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Property rights; Military power; Checks and balances; Institutions; Defense and Security Studies; Political Economy; Public Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1868; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2868/viewcontent/siv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

How can agents in the military, who control the means of coercion, commit not to expropriate from producers? In this paper we propose competition within the military as one of the mechanisms that can deter predation and consequently create commitment. In our model, even if agents within the military...