Democracy and the Development of State Spending: Evidence from the First Two Waves of Democratization

• In Event: Authoritarianism and Democracy

Brief Overview

We argue that different combinations of democratic institutions explain different periods of state-building during modern history. We test the implications of the argument with a novel data set of regime finance for nearly 50 countries.

Authors

• Masaaki Higashijima, The University of Tokyo

• Austin Michael Mitchell, Norwegian University of Science and Technology