Has Democratization Reduced Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence From Micro Data

Kudamatsu, Masayuki

doi:10.1111/j.1542-4774.2012.01092.x

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“…Over the last two decades, numerous studies have linked democracies to higher social welfare provisions than authoritarian regimes (Alesina, Baqir, & Easterly, ; Haggard & Kaufman, ; Lake & Baum, ; McGuire & Olson, ; Olson, ; but see Adolf, ). Democracies also appear to fare better than most authoritarian systems on health outcomes such as infant mortality and life expectancy (Besley & Kudamatsu, ; Gerring, Thacker, & Alfaro, ; Kudamatsu, ; McGuire, ; Navia & Zweifel, ). Yet when comparing the world's two most populous nations, public health is unambiguously worse in India than in China (Dummer & Cook, ; Ma & Sood, ).…”

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Political Determinants of Public Health Investment inChina andIndia

Joshi¹,

Bin²

2014

Asian Politics and Policy

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This article examines long-term political determinants of divergent levels of public health investment in China and India. Addressing the welfare-state literature hypothesis that democracies tend to invest more than non-democracies in social services including public health, we hypothesize that in low-income countries the development ideologies held by political leaders and the degree to which lower classes pressure the state for public services may impact public health investment more strongly than regime type. We offer a test of this hypothesis through comparative historical analysis of democratic India and non-democratic China. Controlling for economic growth rates and including analysis of the outlying Indian state of Kerala, we find support for our hypothesis that development ideology and systematic pressure from the lower classes have a major impact on government investment in public health.

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Political Determinants of Public Health Investment inChina andIndia

Joshi¹,

Bin²

2014

Asian Politics and Policy

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“…Empirical research has already found evidence supporting the hypothesis that democratisation improves human development in regions such as Latin America (Brown & Hunter 1999) and Africa (Kudamatsu 2012). Our goal is to assess if this relationship also holds among East Central European and former Soviet countries.…”

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Pathways of democratisation to human development in post-communist countries

Cassani

Luppi

Natalizia

2016

European Journal of Political Research

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The article investigates the consequences of post‐Cold War regime transitions on human development in the former Soviet bloc. Relying on a mixed‐methods research strategy that combines econometric and qualitative comparative analysis, it proceeds through three consecutive steps. First, there is a discussion of how democratic institutions may solicit governments’ attention toward social issues. Second, the relationship between democratisation and human development in 21 post‐communist countries is tested. Third, democracy in its core attributes is unpacked, and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is used to identify a few alternative institutional configurations favouring human development. The analysis reveals that not only full democracies, but also some hybrid regimes, have been successful in this task.

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“…20). Indeed, a number of studies have shown that in countries with better institutions, citizens enjoy higher life expectancy (Besley & Kudamatsu, 2006;Kudamatsu, 2012) and report higher levels of self-rated health (Krueger, Dovel, & Denney, 2015), whereas the government tends to prioritize health spending (Kazemi Karyani, Homaie Rad, Pourreza, & Shaahmadi, 2015).…”

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Natural‐resource dependence and life expectancy: A nonlinear relationship

Madreimov

2019

Sustainable Development

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In this paper, we revisit the link between natural resources and quality of life, measured by life expectancy over the period 1990–2011. Using fixed effect and panel‐corrected standard‐errors regression estimators we document that there is inverted U‐shaped relationship between natural‐resource dependence and longevity. This implies that in the long run, natural‐resource dependence hampers human development. This effect remains robust after a set of robustness checks.

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Has Democratization Reduced Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence From Micro Data

Cited by 280 publications

References 73 publications

Political Determinants of Public Health Investment inChina andIndia

Political Determinants of Public Health Investment inChina andIndia

Pathways of democratisation to human development in post-communist countries

Natural‐resource dependence and life expectancy: A nonlinear relationship

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