Pluemper, Thomas; Neumayer, Eric - 2015
Famine mortality is preventable by government action and yet some famines kill. We develop a political theory of famine … mortality based on the selectorate theory of Bueno de Mesquita et al. (2002, 2003). We argue that it can be politically rational … hypotheses that famine mortality is possible in democracies, but likely to be lower than in autocracies. Moreover, a larger share …
