Dictators and Their Viziers: Endogenizing the Loyalty-Competence Trade-Off

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Making Bureaucracy Work: Patronage Networks, Performance Incentives, and Economic Development in China (2018, background): “To make matters worse, an influential literature has argued that in authoritarian regimes, leaders often face a trade off between loyalty and competence in political selection (e.g., Egorov and Sonin 2011).”
Corrupting the Cyber-Commons: Social Media as a Tool of Autocratic Stability (2015, background): “44 As Egorov and Sonin 2011 note, the trade-off between loyalty and competence is a persistent problem in nondemocratic regimes, limiting rulers’ access to unpleasant but vital information.”
Electoral manipulation as bureaucratic control (2013, background): “Formally, we assume the following information structure and timing of events: 5For an exception, see Egorov and Sonin (2009).”