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Counting Calories: Democracy and Distribution in the Developing World

  • 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.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Mark A. KayserORCiD, Lisa Blaydes
Parent Title (English):International Studies Quarterly
ISSN:1468-2478
Publication year:2011
First Page:887
Last Page:908
Related URL:http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227697759_Counting_Calories_Democracy_and_Distribution_in_the_Developing_World1
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2011.00692.x
Release Date:2014/06/03
Volume:55
Issue:4
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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