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      The impact of regime-type on health: does redistribution explain everything?

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      Wigley, S.
      Akkoyunlu Wigley, A.
      Date
      2011-09-22
      Source Title
      World Politics
      Print ISSN
      0043-8871
      Publisher
      Cambridge University Press
      Volume
      63
      Issue
      4
      Pages
      647 - 677
      Language
      English
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      Article
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      Abstract
      Many scholars claim that democracy improves population health. The prevailing explanation for this is that democratic regimes distribute health-promoting resources more widely than autocratic regimes. The central contention of this article is that democracies also have a significant pro-health effect regardless of public redistributive policies. After establishing the theoretical plausibility of the nondistributive effect, a panel of 153 countries for the years 1972 to 2000 is used to examine the relationship between extent of democratic experience and life expectancy. The authors find that democratic governance continues to have a salutary effect on population health even when controls are introduced for the distribution of health-enhancing resources. Data for fifty autocratic countries for the years 1994 to 2007 are then used to examine whether media freedom-independent of government responsiveness-has a positive impact on life expectancy.
      Keywords
      Democracy
      Health Impact
      Public Health
      Economics
      Education
      Ethnic And Racial Groups
      Ethnology
      Health Care Policy
      Health Promotion
      History
      Human
      Legal Aspect
      Life Expectancy
      Political System
      Psychological Aspect
      Public Health
      Democracy
      Health Policy
      Health Promotion
      History
      20th Century
      History
      21st Century
      Humans
      Life Expectancy
      Political Systems
      Population Groups
      Public Health
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0043887111000177
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