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Democracy, Dictatorship, and Infant Mortality
2000
Journal of Democracy
The effect of economic development in reducing hunger is widely known, but what is the effect of a country's political regime on the basic welfare of its inhabitants? Does it matter whether that country has an authoritarian or a democratic regime? The answer is yes. Any randomly selected country's regime, regardless of its level of development, matters for its social performance. Fewer children die in democracies than in dictatorships. The infant mortality rate is the indicator of chronic
doi:10.1353/jod.2000.0047
fatcat:si776tlep5c6pine7ubz4o4i3a