Political Reforms and Public Policy: Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies
Political Reforms and Public Policy: Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies
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DOI：
10.1093/wber/lht003
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发表时间：
2014-01-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Swinnen, Johan
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作者：
Olper, Alessandro;Falkowski, Jan;Swinnen, Johan
本文使用一组新的50年期全球农业和粮食政策数据（包括1955-2005年期间74个发展中国家和发达国家的数据），研究政治体制转型对公共政策的影响。我们发现的证据表明，民主化导致减少农业税收，增加农业补贴，或两者兼而有之。实证研究结果与中位数选民模型的预测是一致的，因为政治转型主要发生在农民占多数的国家。结果是强大的不同规格，估计方法和变量定义。
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.