TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mulligan,Casey B.
AU  - Sala-i-Martin,Xavier
AU  - Gil,Ricard
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies than Nondemocracies?
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - October 2003; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Estimates of democracy's effect on the public sector are obtained from comparisons of 142 countries over the years 1960-90. Based on three tenets of voting theory -- that voting mutes policy preference intensity, political power is equally distributed in democracies, and the form of voting processes is important -- we expect democracy to affect policies that redistribute, or economically favor the political leadership, or enhance efficiency. We do not find such differences. Instead democracies are less likely to use policies that limit competition for public office. Alternative modeling approaches emphasize the degree of competition, and deemphasize the form or even existence of voting processes
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w10040
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w10040
ER  -