The common strategy for autocrats is to name successors, typically their own children.
If the dictator’s handbook is right about the forces, oligarchy isn’t a “stable succession plan” (because it’s less stable), so this wouldn’t make oligarchy an equilibrium, it would just make nothing an equilibrium. (IE these forces don’t balance out, they just keep transitioning other states into the least stable state, which would result in continuing transitions back and forth.)
The common strategy for autocrats is to name successors, typically their own children.
If the dictator’s handbook is right about the forces, oligarchy isn’t a “stable succession plan” (because it’s less stable), so this wouldn’t make oligarchy an equilibrium, it would just make nothing an equilibrium. (IE these forces don’t balance out, they just keep transitioning other states into the least stable state, which would result in continuing transitions back and forth.)