Public Good Provision by Dictatorships:

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" Public Good Provision by Dictatorships: "
Deacon, Robert; Saha, Sarani

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	911605
Doc. No	:	LA1jk5b0vr
Title & Author	:	Public Good Provision by Dictatorships:. A Survey [Article]\ Deacon, Robert; Saha, Sarani
Date	:	2005
Title of Periodical	:	UC Santa Barbara
Abstract	:	All dictatorships provide public goods, but levels of provision generally differ from those found in otherwise similar democracies. Some theoretical treatments of this phenomenon emphasize differences in the degree of monopoly power enjoyed by dictators versus leaders of governments, while others stress differences in the size of the group a dictatorial versus democratic government leader must satisfy in order to remain in office. Empirical analysis is still at an early stage and has been oriented mainly toward determining the magnitude of the governance effect on public good provision, rather than devising tests that would distinguish between alternative theories of dictatorial behavior. While the empirical record is far from unanimous, the weight of evidence indicates that dictatorships under-provide public goods relative to democracies and that the estimated effects are both large in magnitude and statistically significant. JEL Classifications: H1, D72, H11