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Autocratic Health Versus Democratic Health: Different Outcome Variables for Health as a Factor Versus Health as a Right

In: The Political Economy of Social Choices

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  • Dina Rosenberg

    (National Research University - Higher School of Economics)

  • Olga Shvetsova

    (Binghamton University)

Abstract

In this paper we argue that autocracies’ healthcare policy is a part of their economic policy and targets developing the labor force as a production factor. With the disaggregated data on mortality from specific diseases, we show that, other things equal, autocracies manage to deal relatively well with the diseases that “damage” the workforce, at the expense of other areas of health improvement. Democracies, in contrast, do not have such bias, and their policy priorities are less clear and depend on the preferences of their winning coalitions on the dimension of health.

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  • Dina Rosenberg & Olga Shvetsova, 2016. "Autocratic Health Versus Democratic Health: Different Outcome Variables for Health as a Factor Versus Health as a Right," Studies in Political Economy, in: Maria Gallego & Norman Schofield (ed.), The Political Economy of Social Choices, pages 1-20, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stpocp:978-3-319-40118-8_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40118-8_1
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