Robert T. Deacon
Public good provision under dictatorship and democracy
University of California, Santa Barbara
allocation government budget public good transfers modeled different systems government relatively even distribution political power among groups democracy favors spending nonexclusive public goods concentrated pattern political power dictatorship favors spending transfers targeted powerful groups hypothesis public good provision examined using crosscountry data public good provision empirical indicators political regime dictatorial governments found provide public schooling roads safe water public sanitation pollution control levels far democracies