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3 - Political Regime Type and Agricultural Policy Outcomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2019

Henry Thomson
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
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In this chapter, I model agricultural policy outcomes across countries. I do so using cross-national data on agricultural market distortions, regime typ,e and structures, which are indicators of the strength of rural and urban interests. I show that democracies support agriculture more than authoritarian regimes, on average. I look at the effects of urbanization, inequality, and unequal distributions of landholdings on agricultural support. I find that urbanization is associated with less support for agriculture under dictatorship, particularly in Asia. Inequality is associated with declining support for agriculture in democracies, particularly in Latin America and high-income countries, but not in Africa. Landholding inequality is correlated with greater support for agriculture under dictatorship, particularly in Latin America and Asia.

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Food and Power
Regime Type, Agricultural Policy, and Political Stability
, pp. 55 - 88
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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