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The Invisible Hand of Democracy: Political Control and the Provision of Public Services
Abstract
Despite considerable normative support, analysts have failed to identify any systematic effects of democracy on domestic policy outputs. Building on a theory of the state as a monopoly producer of public services and establishing a common foundation for studying variations in regimes and their policy consequences, the authors hypothesize that democratic states will earn fewer monopoly rents and produce a higher level of services than autocracies. They test this hypothesis both cross-sectionally and over time for a variety of public health and education indicators. The statistical results strongly support their hypotheses. The authors conclude that democracy has real, substantively important effects on the daily lives and well-being of individuals around the globe.
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- Authors
- LAKE, D. A., & BAUM, M. A.
- Venue
- Comparative Political Studies
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2001-08
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 587-621
- ISSN
- 0010-4140 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3829
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- W2127409878
- Cited by
- 910
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 32.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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