DEMOCRACY, MARKET LIBERALIZATION, AND POLITICAL PREFERENCES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia
• 署名单位: University of San Francisco; Paris School of Economics; Sorbonne Universite
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00062
• 发表日期: 2011-02
• 页码: 365-381
• 关键词: economic-development; GROWTH; TRADE; decentralization; TRANSITION; communism; gravity; support

摘要

We estimate the impact of market development and democratization on subjective political preferences. We rely on the specific situation of frontier zones and the considerable regional variations in culture and economic development in the countries of the former socialist bloc for identification. Using a survey conducted in 2006, we find a positive and significant effect of democracy on support for a market economy, but no effect of market liberalization on support for democracy. Hence, in contrast with the conventional wisdom concerning the sequencing of political and economic reforms, democratization may become a necessary condition to obtain public support for further economic liberalization.