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"This book presents an innovative model linking insights from democratization, development and conflict studies to explain personalist behavior and their violent transitions. Based on multiple case studies from Sub Saharan Africa, the author maps and predicts regime transitions, presenting examples of how states can avoid such vicious circles of conflict and tyranny. By integrating decades of specialist literature from various subfields of political science, the book models personalist behavior, its impact on the states they govern, and their future transitions. By systematizing regime behavior (coup-proofing, gatekeeping, repression and hoarding), the model identifies the mechanics on how personalist regimes establish vicious circles of personalism and explains how exactly they end up again in authoritarianism or in new personalist tyrannies after their demise, and so seldom transition to democracy. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics, democratization and democratic consolidation, authoritarian rule and more broadly to political science, comparative politics, area studies, political leadership, peace and conflict studies and development studies"--

Dictatorship --- Political culture --- Political leadership --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Politics and government.

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Economic production --- Computer. Automation

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This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest knowledge on authoritarian regimes. Combining quantitative research and in-depth case studies, it not only provides novel insight into past and current dictatorships, but also forecasts potential new developments in authoritarian politics.

Authoritarianism. --- Political systems

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This master’s thesis focalizes on the assessment of the relationship between two state-of-the art methodologies renown for measuring the economic value of patents. While the literature claims for more hybrid methods in terms of monetarily evaluating patents for flexibility and robustness reasons, this study made it possible to assess the accuracy and sensitivity of today’s evaluation. Built on the one hand on the research conducted by Kogan et al. (2017) based on the stock market reaction to patent grants, and on the other hand on the evaluation proposed by Orbis Intellectual Property that uses a hybrid panel of patent indicators, this study found that both valuation methodologies significantly differ when analyzing the patents’ monetary value. Specifically, after controlling for firm characteristics, it was shown that other variables account for a greater proportion of variance in the Orbis value than the Kogan variable. This sub analysis reaffirmed the little to nonexistent relationship between both methods. Although these findings offer indicative initial insights, they further underscore the need for more adapted statistical tools with the potential to further clarify these relationships

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Recently, the debate concerning the potential existence of “killer acquisitions” in technology market has gained traction. This thesis aims to contribute to this debate by showing empirical results in the mobile application industry. Our results show us that there are acquisitions done by big technology firms that decreases the innovation output of the acquired mobile application. Based on these results, this paper suggest that antitrust agencies should update their current merger review processes to keep up with the ever-changing digital economy.