Shade-grown authoritarianism? Coffee exports and democracy in Latin America

• In Event: New Perspectives on Democratization

Brief Overview

We use data from V-DEM and the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) to examine the relationship between coffee exports and democracy in 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries from 1962 to 2010 to test the existence of a ‘resource curse.’

Authors

• Lucas Matias Perelló, Marist College

• Pablo Argote, University of Southern California

• Patricio D. Navia, New York University