Olper, Alessandro; Fatkowski, Jan; Johan, Swinnenm - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
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). The authors find evidence that democratization leads to a reduction of agricultural taxation, an increase in …