Is Democracy Good for the Poor

By Michael L. Ross. 2006

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The taxman tools up: An event history study of the introduction of the personal income tax (2009, background): “Webber and Wildavsky (1986) and following them Peters (1991, Table 7.”
Response to David J. Samuels and Ben W. Ansell’s review of From Open Secrets to Secret Voting: Democratic Electoral Reforms and Voter Autonomy (2014, background): “Political economists agree - witness the well-known efforts seeking to explain why most government spending tends to favor the wealthy (e.g. Benabou 1996, 2000; Benabou and Ok 2001; Grossman and Helpman 2002; Justman and Gradstein 1999; Lizzeri and Persico 2004; Ross 2006; Stigler 1970).”
Improving Social Well-Being Through New Democratic Institutions (2014, background): “Furthermore, Ross (2006) argues democracy produces “few if any improvements” in material well-being for impoverished people (p. 872).”
The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal (2015, background): “…debt measures, specifications Iversen et al. (2013) Banerjee and Iyer (2005) Different data set by recoding key regressor Martel Garcı́a (2014) Ross (2006) Recoding regressor of interest, arguably correcting Iversen and Palmer-Jones (2014) Jensen and Oster (2009, 2012, 2014) Rebuild index…”
Democracy and State Capacity: Complements or Substitutes? (2015, positive): “Furthermore, the results encompass those of Ross (2006) and point to a different conclusion.”
Democracy and Human Development (2012, background): “Several studies argue that there is no positive correlation between regime type and various measures of human development or that these relationships are not especially robust (Gauri and Khaleghian 2002; McGuire 2004; Ross 2006; Shandra et al. 2004).”