TY - JOUR A1 - Kayser, Mark A. A1 - Blaydes, Lisa T1 - Counting Calories: Democracy and Distribution in the Developing World JF - International Studies Quarterly N2 - How does regime type affect the poor? Are certain types of regimes better at translating economic growth into consumption for the world's least privileged citizens? We propose an alternative measure of transfers to the poor that is nearly universally available and innately captures distribution: average daily calorie consumption. In sharp contrast to the consumption of material goods or the accumulation of wealth for which humans have shown no upper bound on their ability to achieve, biological limits make it impossible for a small number of individuals to consume most of a nation's calories. Democracies and hybrid regimes—which combine elements of autocracy and democracy—are better at translating economic growth into total calorie consumption than autocracies and perform strikingly similarly in this regard; democracies outperform both hybrid regimes and autocracies, however, in converting growth into higher quality calories from animal sources. Y1 - 2011 UR - http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227697759_Counting_Calories_Democracy_and_Distribution_in_the_Developing_World1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2011.00692.x SN - 1468-2478 VL - 55 IS - 4 SP - 887 EP - 908 ER -