Political Reforms and Public Policy: Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies

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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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22556

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