作者：Morris, Stephen; Shadmehr, Mehdi
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
摘要：We consider the problem of a leader who can assign rewards for citizens for different anti-regime actions. Citizens face a coordination problem in which each citizen has a private, endogenous degree of optimism about the likelihood of regime change. Because more optimistic citizens are easier to motivate, the choice of optimal rewards entails optimal screening. This leads to a distribution of anti-regime actions. A key result is the emergence of a vanguard, consisting of citizens who engage in...
