Political competition and support for agriculture

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This paper investigates whether political competition plays an important role in determining the level of agricultural protection. In order to do so, we exploit variation in political and economic data from 74 developing and developed countries for the post-war period. Our results robustly show that the level of agricultural distortions is the higher, the higher is the level of political competition. We show that political competition may importantly complement other institutional aspects in determining policy choices. We investigate the heterogeneous effects of political competition across different electoral rules (majoritarian vs. proportional), forms of government (coalition vs. single-party) and level of incomes.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IAMO Forum 2010, Halle (Saale), June 16 - 18, 2010: Institutions in Transition - Challenges for New Modes of Governance

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products ; Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
• Subject: Political competition ; constitutional rules ; agricultural distortions

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fałkowski, Jan ; Olper, Alessandro
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO)
• (where): Halle (Saale)
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/52697
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET