Victims of Their Own Success? A Biopsy of Cancer Deaths and Democracy Worldwide

• In Event: Democratization and Autocratization

Brief Overview

This article uses data from 174 countries from 1990 to 2018 to test whether cancer death rates are more prevalent in democracies and if cancer deaths fluctuate under democratic deepening, stagnation, and backsliding.

Authors

• Lucas Matias Perelló, Florida Atlantic University

• Pablo Argote, University of Southern California

• Shaoli Chaudhuri, Columbia University