Timur Kuran’s scientific contributions

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Publications (1)


Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
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January 1995

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Timur Kuran

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... The signal that anyone could act as a supporter hinders the coordination of the regime's opponents for collective action due to the difficulty of achieving common knowledge (Chwe 1999;2001). This induces uncertainty and leads to the falsification of preferences (Kuran 1997). Highly plebiscitary regimes under personalist dictators like Egypt or Syria are notorious for the degree to which citizens act "as if" they believed what the government said (Wedeen 1998). ...

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Authoritarian personalism, institutional constraints, and plebiscitary rule
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
  • Citing Book
  • January 1995