The Invisible Hand of Democracy

By David A. Lake, Matthew A. Baum. 2001

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Traditional Governance, Citizen Engagement, and Local Public Goods: Evidence from Mexico (2014, background): “3 Olken (2006) similarly found that the leakages in a poverty relief program delivering rice in Indonesia were large enough that they offset the welfare gains from having the program in place at all.”
Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective (2005, background): “…Drawing on market models, this view argues that democracy’s competitive pressures limit states’ ability to garner and distribute monopoly rents 117+ See Lake and Baum 2001; and Baum and Lake 2003+ Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia355 to themselves and a narrow band…”
Democracy and dictatorship revisited (2010, background): “…they should result in lower inequality (Meltzer and Richards 1981; Przeworski 1990), better provision of public goods (Bueno de Mesquita et al. 2003; Lake and Baum 2001), greater involvement in trade agreements (Mansﬁeld et al. 2002), and the avoidance of catastrophes such as famine (Sen 2000).”
Democracy and Human Development (2012, background): “Since widespread human misery is unpopular, democratically elected leaders may be more likely to concern themselves with issues of human development than leaders who maintain their positions through other means (Lake and Baum 2001).”
Comparative Public Health: The Political Economy of Human Misery and Well-Being (2004, background): “…must satisfy a wider range of supporters they are less able than authoritarian ones to extract rents for the private benefit of small groups, and must respond more to broad demands for public well-being (Olson, 1993; Bueno de Mesquita, Morrow, Siverson, and Smith, 1999; Lake and Baum, 2001).”
Counting Calories: Democracy and Distribution in the Developing World (2011, background): “…have also suggested that democracies are forced to produce more public goods as a result of accountability introduced through the electoral process (Lake and Baum 2001) and that democracies particularly attempt to provide services that improve human capital in a broad manner (Lake and Baum 2001;…”
Democracy, State Capacity, and Economic Growth (2013, background): “…select a range of ‘good policies’, like policies intended to provide productive public goods and services such as infrastructure and education (e.g. Lake & Baum, 2001; Bueno de Mesquita et al., 2003; Lindert, 2005), there is the question of successfully implementing these policies when state…”
Globalization, Democracy, and Effective Welfare Spending in the Developing World (2005, background): “A third and final strand of thinking, which can be traced to Cox (1987), treats social policy as a public good and argues that democracies are more prone to supply such goods (Bueno de Mesquita, Smith, Siverson, & Morrow, 2003; Lake & Baum, 2001).”
The Politics of Hard Choices: IMF Programs and Government Spending (2006, background): “…in periods of IMF austerity are substantially different than in periods of greater 31+ Lake and Baum 2001+ 32+ See Bueno de Mesquita et al+ 2003; and Lake and Baum 2001+ 33+ See Avelino, Brown, and Hunter 2005; Brown and Hunter 2004; Kaufman and Segura-Ubiergo 2001; Rudra and Haggard 2005; and…”