Democracy and education spending in Africa

By D. Stasavage. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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The role of democracy in Uganda's move to universal primary education (2005, background): “45 % of GDP more on primary education (Stasavage 2004).”
Is Democracy Good for the Poor (2006, background): “An analysis of 44 African states by Stasavage (2005a) finds strong evidence that democracy has increased government spending on education, and a series of studies of Latin America finds that democracy is robustly linked to higher spending on health, education, and social security (Avelino, Brown,…”
Elections, Information, and Policy Responsiveness in Autocratic Regimes (2015, background): “There are some concerns that education spending may be used to target elites, but studies connecting increased competition to education spending have generally found the largest effects on primary education (Hecock, 2006; Stasavage, 2005).”
From the Ballot to the Blackboard: The Redistributive Political Economy of Education (2010, background): “Stasavage essentially reverses Bates’ (1981) well-known model of African urban-rural politics.”
Democracy and State Capacity: Complements or Substitutes? (2015, neutral): “Yet, in contrast to Canada, South Korea 2 For examples, see Kaufman and Segura-Ubiergo (2001), Brown and Hunter (2004), Avelino et al. (2005), and Stasavage (2005).”
The Effect of Civil War on Education, 1980—97 (2007, methodology): “Civil wars are likely to reduce educational expenditures as well as educational enrollments across all levels.”
Distributive Politics Around the World (2013, background): “Democracies provide more basic education (Stasavage 2005), improve infant mortality rates (Kudamatsu 2012), allow broader access to electricity (Min 2010, ch. 3), and redistribute a larger portion of the surplus than nondemocracies, whose leaders instead extract greater rents (Lake & Baum 2001).”
Democracy, State Capacity, and Economic Growth (2013, background): “Indeed, Stasavage (2005) finds that African democracies spend far more on primary and secondary education than African dictatorships.”
Electoral Competition, Globalization, and Subnational Education Spending in Mexico, 1999–2004 (2006, background): “Hunter (1999, 2004) and Stasavage (2005) , among”
Food insecurity and conflict dynamics - Causal linkages and Complex feedbacks* (2013, background): “Regardless of regime type, rulers face general incentives to invest in policies that disproportionately favor those segments of society that pose the most threat and whose support is most necessary for regime survival: urban dwellers, the military and the upper and middle classes (Bates 1981a, 1981b”
The Politics of Hard Choices: IMF Programs and Government Spending (2006, background): “…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 Stasavage 2005+ economic well-being+ The above arguments are fundamentally about the effects of institutions, and one should expect that the…”