Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies than Nondemocracies

By Casey B. Mulligan, Ricard Gil, Xavier Sala-i-Martin. 2004

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Tax Systems in the World: An Empirical Investigation into the Importance of Tax Bases, Administration Costs, Scale and Political Regime (2006, background): “Kau and Rubin (1981) hypothesized that monitoring of tax compliance may be less costly in urban areas, and later Riezman and Slemrod (1987) argued that the administration of income and sales taxes in particular was easier in more densely populated countries. There is little support for this hypothes”
Public good provision under dictatorship and democracy (2009, background): “This basic intuition on the relative size of the controlling group underlies the comparative political models of Bueno de Mesquita, et al. (2003) and McGuire and Olson (1996) and similar reasoning drives predictions on public good provision in Milesi-Ferretti, et al. (2002) and Lizzeri and Persico”
Why does democracy need education? (2007, neutral): “Nor do we consider the consequences of democracy, see, e.g., Przeworski and Limongi (1993) and Mulligan et al. (2004).”