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). We find evidence that democratization leads to a r...

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Main Authors:	Olper, Alessandro, Fałkowski, Jan, Swinnen, Johan
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
Subjects:	decision maker democracy democratic regime developing country dictatorial regime economic liberalization election executive branch financial support income political economy political power political regime political rights political systems public policy
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22556

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spelling	okr-10986-225562021-04-23T14:04:09Z Political Reforms and Public Policy: Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies Olper, Alessandro Fałkowski, Jan Swinnen, Johan decision maker democracy democratic regime developing country dictatorial regime economic liberalization election executive branch financial support income political economy political power political regime political rights political systems public policy 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). We 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. 2015-08-28T17:42:55Z 2015-08-28T17:42:55Z 2014-01-23 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22556 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article
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spellingShingle	decision maker democracy democratic regime developing country dictatorial regime economic liberalization election executive branch financial support income political economy political power political regime political rights political systems public policy Olper, Alessandro Fałkowski, Jan Swinnen, Johan Political Reforms and Public Policy: Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies
description	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). We 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.
format	Journal Article
author	Olper, Alessandro Fałkowski, Jan Swinnen, Johan
author_facet	Olper, Alessandro Fałkowski, Jan Swinnen, Johan
author_sort	Olper, Alessandro
title	Political Reforms and Public Policy: Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies
title_short	Political Reforms and Public Policy: Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies
title_full	Political Reforms and Public Policy: Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies
title_fullStr	Political Reforms and Public Policy: Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies
title_full_unstemmed	Political Reforms and Public Policy: Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies
title_sort	political reforms and public policy: evidence from agricultural and food policies
publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2015
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22556
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Political Reforms and Public Policy: Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies

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