Journal article
Democracy and Social Spending in Latin America, 1980–92
The American political science review, v 93(4), pp 779-790
Dec 1999
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Abstract
What is the effect of regime type on public expenditures for social programs? We investigate the relationship between democracy and the change in social spending—controlling for GDP, the debt, inflation, and age structure of the population—through a time-series cross-sectional panel data set for 17 Latin American countries from 1980 to 1992. The results show that, especially in poor countries during economic crisis, democracies increase the allocation of resources to social programs relative to authoritarian regimes. This suggests that the latter are more constrained by economic forces, whereas democracies are more constrained by popular demands. Hence, calls to abandon broad categorizations of regime type appear to be premature: Democracy can matter in systematic and substantial ways.
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- Title
- Democracy and Social Spending in Latin America, 1980–92
- Creators
- David S. Brown - Drexel University, College of Arts and SciencesWendy Hunter - The University of Texas at Austin
- Publication Details
- The American political science review, v 93(4), pp 779-790
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 12
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000084142300003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0033234871
- Other Identifier
- 991019202314504721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Political Science