caa a22 4500 388080140 CHVBK 20180307125212.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2586112 doi S0003055400219084 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2586112 Democracy and Social Spending in Latin America, 1980-92 [Elektronische Daten] What is the effect of regime type on public expenditures for social programs? We investigate the relationship between democracy and the change in social spending—controlling for GDP, the debt, inflation, and age structure of the population—through a time-series cross-sectional panel data set for 17 Latin American countries from 1980 to 1992. The results show that, especially in poor countries during economic crisis, democracies increase the allocation of resources to social programs relative to authoritarian regimes. This suggests that the latter are more constrained by economic forces, whereas democracies are more constrained by popular demands. Hence, calls to abandon broad categorizations of regime type appear to be premature: Democracy can matter in systematic and substantial ways. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 Brown David S. Rice University Hunter Wendy Vanderbilt University American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/4(1999-12), 779-790 0003-0554 93:4<779 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2586112 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2586112 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brown David S. Rice University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hunter Wendy Vanderbilt University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/4(1999-12), 779-790 0003-0554 93:4<779 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge