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Virtualstan: An Agent-Based Modeling Strategy for the Comparative Dynamics of Authoritarian Regimes: Bureaucratic Authoritarianism, Bureaucratic Feudalism, and Neopatrimonialism
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Virtualstan and Comparative Dynamics of Authoritarian Regimes
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Figure 2. Bureaucratic Authoritarianism
State Officials Highlighted, Social Elites Displayed in Color
Let us consider each regime operationalization in more detail. The key aspect of the
regime implemented in this template (BA) is that of a systematically organized and self-reinforcing institution that relies minimally on support from or contact with social elites to preserve its integrity. The GL is implemented in the cell at the coordinates 28,29, as it is in each of the three versions of Virtualstan (Figures 2,3,4). Radiating out from this cell is a relatively clearly patterned web of Lackeys studded at fairly regular intervals with Bureaucrats (the highlighting in this, and in the next two figures, obscures icon differences). These influential bureaucrats are anchored on their public affiliation to the GL by remotely received influence signals from the GL and by relatively high “triggers” for changing their activation and repertoire complexion in response to changing opportunities (see lines 4-5 in Table C). Because of their influence level of three, Bureaucrats, in turn, pressure adjacent agents and any Lackey located within a radius of 4 cells, to activate and remain activated on their identity (normally the regime identity as projected by the GL).
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| | Authors: Lustick, Ian. and Cartrite, Britt. |
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Virtualstan and Comparative Dynamics of Authoritarian Regimes
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Lustick and Cartrite
Figure 2. Bureaucratic Authoritarianism
State Officials Highlighted, Social Elites Displayed in Color
Let us consider each regime operationalization in more detail. The key aspect of the
regime implemented in this template (BA) is that of a systematically organized and self-
reinforcing institution that relies minimally on support from or contact with social elites to
preserve its integrity. The GL is implemented in the cell at the coordinates 28,29, as it is in each
of the three versions of Virtualstan (Figures 2,3,4). Radiating out from this cell is a relatively
clearly patterned web of Lackeys studded at fairly regular intervals with Bureaucrats (the
highlighting in this, and in the next two figures, obscures icon differences). These influential
bureaucrats are anchored on their public affiliation to the GL by remotely received influence
signals from the GL and by relatively high “triggers” for changing their activation and repertoire
complexion in response to changing opportunities (see lines 4-5 in Table C). Because of their
influence level of three, Bureaucrats, in turn, pressure adjacent agents and any Lackey located
within a radius of 4 cells, to activate and remain activated on their identity (normally the regime
identity as projected by the GL).
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