This paper studies the effect of political regime transitions on public policy using a new data set on global agricultural and food policies over a 50-year period (including data from 74 developing and developed countries over the 1955-2005 period). The authors find evidence that democratization...

"The authors use a sample of 147 countries to investigate the link between democracy and reforms. Democracy may be conducive to reforms, because politicians have the incentive to embrace growth-enhancing reforms to win elections. By contrast, authoritarian regimes do not have to worry as much...

Overcoming our Middle Kingdom complex : finding China's place in comparative politics / Scott Kennedy -- Variety within and without : the political economy of Chinese regulation / Margaret M. Pearson -- Developmental dreams : policy and reality in China's economic reforms / Arthur R. Kroeber --...

This paper studies the effect of political regime transitions on public policy using a new data set on global agricultural and food policies over a 50-year period (including data from 74 developing and developed countries over the 1955?2005 period). The authors find evidence that democratization...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Overcoming Our Middle Kingdom Complex: Finding China's Place in Comparative Politics / Scott Kennedy -- Part One: Chinese Economic Reform and the Varieties of Capitalism -- 2. Variety Within and Without: The...

This paper studies the effect of political regime transitions on public policy using a new data set on global agricultural and food policies over a 50-year period (including data from 74 developing and developed countries over the 1955 2005 period). The authors find evidence that democratization...