Democracy, Development, and the Public Sector

By C. Boix. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Democracy comes to Europe: Franchise extension and fiscal outcomes 1830-1938 (2006, background): “However, as pointed out by Boix (2001), the impact of these forces depends on underlying political structures for a number of plausible reasons.”
Democracy and Human Development (2012, background): “…(Kurzman, Werum, and Burkhart 2002; Przeworski et al. 2000), the consensus view has been that democracy enhances human development (e.g., Boix 2001; Brown and Hunter 2004; Brown and Mobarak 2009; Dreze and Sen 1989; Ghobarah, Huth, and Russett 2004; Kudamatsu 2006; Lake and Baum 2001;…”
Trade, Democracy, and the Size of the Public Sector: The Political Underpinnings of Openness (2002, background): “For a full analysis of the impact of economic modernization in all its dimensions on the size of the public sector, see Boix 2001.”
The taxman tools up: An event history study of the introduction of the personal income tax (2009, background): “However, although the two instruments are highly signicant in the rst stage regression reported in model (13), this is largely driven by the lagged value of su¤rage, and not by revolution.”
Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries (2008, background): “In another example, Boix (2001) found that high voter turnout was a factor in explaining the level of taxation in democracies, but that this effect only operated for countries at middle-income levels and above.”
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies (2007, background): “…In fact, each of these is highly correlated with 8The connection between poverty or agriculture and democratic instability is well established (Boix 2001; Boix and Stokes 2003; This content downloaded from 137.110.33.183 on Wed, 8 Jan 2014 20:52:46 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and…”
Tax structure, size of government, and the extension of the voting franchise in Western Europe, 1860–1938 (2009, methodology): “17The median voter models, as developed by, for example, Meltzer and Richard (1981), Boix (2001) and Borge and Rattsoe (2004), also predict that the extension of the voting franchise is associated with redistribution from the rich to the poor and with an increase in the size of government, but…”
Which country matters? Institutional development and foreign affiliate performance (2008, background): “Institutional development results from the implementation of financial market and economic policies (Collier and Gunning, 1999; Levine and Zervos, 1998; Nelson and Singh, 1998; Rajan and Zingales, 1998), the improvement of the provision of public goods (Boix, 2001), the efficiency of intermediation ”
The ICTD Government Revenue Dataset (2014, methodology): “…Timmons 2005; Haber and Menaldo 2011; Baskaran and Bigsten 2013); the impact of democracy, or of history, on taxation and the size of the state (Boix 2001; Cheibub 1998; Mkandawire 2010; Timmons 2010); the impact of tax reform and tax structure on tax revenue (Keen and Lockwood 2010; Keen and…”
Political Institutions and Policy Outcomes: What are the Stylized Facts? (2001, background): “…in levels and each speci…cation 8We relied on threee very closely related classi…cations of countries into federal or unitary states, provided by Boix (2000), Scartascini and Crain (2000) and Treisman (2000), that mainly look at the political structure and the authonomy of states and local…”
Political Institutions and Policy Volatility (2004, unknown): “Other causal channels include the development of a strong and independent press or legal system (Dyck and Zingales, 2001), an improvement in the availability and efficiency of provision of public goods (Boix, 2001; Esfahani and Ramirez, 2003; Roller and Waverman, 2001; Tanzi and Davoddi, 1997), curt”
Female voting power: the contribution of women’s suffrage to the growth of social spending in Western Europe (1869–1960) (2008, background): “It also includes GDP per capita to measure the general level of economic development (Boix 2001).”