Political Reforms and Public Policy : Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies
This paper studies the effect of political regime transitions on public policy using a new data set on global agricultural and food policies over a 50-year period (including data from 74 developing and developed countries over the 1955 2005 period)...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17196551/political-reforms-public-policy-evidence-agricultural-food-policies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12160 |
| Summary: | This paper studies the effect of
political regime transitions on public policy using a new
data set on global agricultural and food policies over a
50-year period (including data from 74 developing and
developed countries over the 1955 2005 period). The authors
find evidence that democratization leads to a reduction of
agricultural taxation, an increase in agricultural
subsidization, or both. The empirical findings are
consistent with the predictions of the median voter model
because political transitions occurred primarily in
countries with a majority of farmers. The results are robust
to different specifications, estimation approaches, and
variable definitions. |
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