POLITICAL-INSTITUTIONS AND INTERNATIONAL PATTERNS OF AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: BEGHIN, JC; KHERALLAH, M
• 署名单位: North Carolina State University; Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.2307/2109973
• 发表日期: 1994-08
• 页码: 482-489
• 关键词: countries

摘要

This paper analyzes the influence of political systems and rights in patterns of agricultural protection across commodities, countries and over time. Four political systems and a qualitative index of political rights account for differences in political institutions. The analysis incorporates the effects of development, of constraints on tax collection feasibility, and of comparative advantages and terms of trade. Pluralistic systems are associated with higher agricultural protection levels, although in a nonlinear fashion. Access to pluralism appears to be important, although further democratization partly dissipates protection.