全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Why is Economic Policy Different in New Democracies? Affecting Attitudes About Democracy

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w13457
来源ID	Working Paper 13457
	Why is Economic Policy Different in New Democracies? Affecting Attitudes About Democracy
	Adi Brender; Allan Drazen
发表日期	2007-10-04
出版年	2007
语种	英语
摘要	When democracy is new, it is often fragile and not fully consolidated. We investigate how the danger of a collapse of democracy may affect fiscal policy in new democracies in comparison to countries where democracy is older and often more established. We argue that the attitude of the citizenry towards democracy is important in preventing democratic collapse, and expenditures may therefore be used to convince them that "democracy works". We present a model focusing on the inference problem that citizens solve in forming their beliefs about the efficacy of democracy. Our approach differs from much of the literature that concentrates on policy directed towards anti-democratic elites, but our model can encompass that view and allows comparison of different apporoaches. We argue that the implications of the model are broadly consistent with the empirical patterns generally observed, including the existence of political budget cycles in new democracies not observed in established democracies.
主题	Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Other ; Economic Systems
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w13457
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571131
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Adi Brender,Allan Drazen. Why is Economic Policy Different in New Democracies? Affecting Attitudes About Democracy. 2007.

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