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spending and

Taiwan and

taxes and

term limits and

time lines and

torture and

United States and

violence and

voting and

World Bank and

Knights

Knowledge

Knox, MacGregor

Kohl, Helmut

Krugman, Paul

Labor

effort level and

equilibrium and

kleptocracy and

leisure decision and

Markov perfect equilibrium and

taxes and

Lacedaemonians

Lackland, John. See King John

Lake, David

Lamborn, Alan C.

Laos

Latin America

Leaders

affinity and

age and

allocation and

alternative approaches and

birthplace and

bloc

challengers and

civic-mindedness and

competence and

coordination issues and

courage and

cronyism and

defection and

defined

deposition and

distribution issues and

domestic challenges and

dyadic selectorate model and

economic distortions and

economic issues and( see also Economic issues)

empirical assessment of

English system and

external threats and

financial crisis and

gender and

hazard rate and

heredity and

high office and

incumbent rivalry and

institutional preferences and

job security and

kleptocracy and( see also Kleptocracy)

lineage and

loyalty norm and( see also Loyalty norm)

Mamluks and

military and

mortality and

nepotism and

oppression and

payoffs and( see also Payoffs)

performance effects and

policy effects and

private interests and

public goods and

puppet

purges and

removal of

reselection and

response settings for

revolution and

selectorate and( see also Selectorate)

shape parameter and

special proficiency and

spending and

support groups of

survival curves for

taxes and

tenure of( see also Tenure)

term limits and

transition and

war and( see also War)

wealth and

winning coalitions and( see also Winning coalitions)

Leadership Hall of Fame

Lebanon

Lee Kwan Yew

Lee Siew Choh

Legislative Selection variable

Leisure

economic activity and

effort level and

equilibrium and

kleptocracy and( see also Kleptocracy)

labor decision and

Markov perfect equilibrium and

taxes and

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Leonidas

Leonidas II

León

Leopold II

Leviathan

Limongi, Fernando

Lincoln, Abraham

Lindert, Peter H.

Lineage

Lin Piao

Locke, John

Logic. See Equations; Models

Louis IX

Loyalty norm

bailout money and

black market and

budget constraint and

coups d’état and

democracy and

disenfranchised and( see also Disenfranchised)

equilibrium and

health care and

institutional preferences and ( see also Institutional preferences)

kleptocracy and ( see also Kleptocracy)

migration and

mortality risk and

payoff and

private goods and

purges and

reselection and

Sparta and

war and

Lycurgus

Lyon, Margot

Lysander

McGuire, Martin

Machiavelli, Niccolò

McKelvey, Richard

McKinley, William

Madison, James

Magna Carta

Mahmud

Major Peace Treaties of Modern History (Israel)

Makiya, Kanan

Mamluks

Mandela, Nelson

Mansfield, Edward

Mao Zedong

Marcos, Ferdinand

Markov perfect equilibrium (MPE)

budget constraint and

challengers and

equations for

incumbents and

indicator function

leisure-and-labor decision and

loyalty norm and

payoff and

player strategy and

selectorate choice and

spending and

state variables and

taxes and

time line and

utility function

Massacres

Mathematics. See Equations

Mauritius

Mercantilism

Mexico

Migration

Berlin Wall and

biased reporting and

black market and

disenfranchised and

Great Britain and

population increase and

Tammany Hall and

United States and

Military juntas. See also War

institutional preferences and

Iraq and

kleptocracy and( see also Kleptocracy)

selectorate theory and

size and

Sparta and