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Democracy and Quality of Governance: What Matters More for Health?
Высшая школа экономики
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2014.
No. 01.
Rosenberg D.
This study explores association between political regime, good governance and country social
performance measured as Infant Mortality Rate (IMR). It is widely argued that democratic leaders
possess more incentives to provide public goods, say, in order to meet median voter’s demands, than
their authoritarian counterparts, which, inter alia, leads to superior health related capabilities in democracies. Maintaining an assumption that in the modern world public health delivery process may
be of greater importance for certain health outcomes than macroeconomic and political factors, say,
economic growth, and capitalizing on the observation that an increasing number of nondemocratic
regimes perform well on governance and health indicators, whereas many democracies, especially
nascent, fare poorly, I argue that it is good governance that matters more for state performance in the
healthcare sector than democracy vs. autocracy dichotomy. Utilizing both cross-section and TSCS
data analysis, I show that good governance exerts systematic influence upon IMR, whereas political
regime characteristics lose their statistical significance once controlled for governance.
Priority areas:
humanitarian
Language:
English
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