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
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22556