David S Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David S Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | David S |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8372-8202 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 664 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The Roots of American Individualism: Political Myth in the Age of Jackson
Democracy, Labor’s Share of Income, and Labor Supply: A Time-Series Cross-Sectional Analysis
This paper examines democracy’s impact on the labor share of income: the share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) dedicated to wages, salaries, and benefits. I hypothesize democratic regimes afford labor the opportunity to increase its share of national income. While previous empirical work finds cross-sectional evidence for the hypothesis, this paper employs a time-series cross-sectional analysis using data for 119 countries between 1950 and 2017, …
Democracy and the Supply of Labor
Integrating the Use of Statistical Software into Undergraduate Political Methodology Courses
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Perceptions of the Rule of Law: Evidence on the Impact of Judicial Insulation
Objectives The purpose of this article is to determine whether judicial insulation influences how individuals assess the rule of law. Methods We employ panel data models using data collected by the World Bank and other sources to differentiate the influence of two kinds of judicial insulation—designed (de jure) and implemented (de facto)—on individuals’ perceptions of the viability of the rule of law in their country. Results We find that while i…
Due Process and Homicide: A Cross-National Analysis
As democracy advances in many regions throughout the world, it is often accompanied by increasing violence. Most cross-national analyses find that an inverted U-shaped relationship exists between homicide and democracy: homicide rates are highest in hybrid regimes and lowest in authoritarian and democratic regimes. While a fairly robust empirical result, little is known about why it exists. We identify a specific institution—due process—that cuts…
The Diffusion of Democracy, 1946–1994
We examine the relationship between the temporal and spatial aspects of democratic diffusion in the world system since 1946. We find strong and consistent evidence of temporal clustering of democratic and autocratic trends, as well as strong spatial association (or autocorrelation) of democratization. The analysis uses an exploratory data approach in a longitudinal framework to understand global and regional trends in changes in authority structu…
Land occupations and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Do political parties matter for turnout? Number of parties, electoral rules and local elections in Brazil and Bolivia
Does the number of political parties influence voter turnout in developing democracies? Some scholars argue that large party systems facilitate matching voter preferences with a specific party, increasing turnout. Others argue multiparty systems produce too many alternatives, decreasing turnout. In developing democracies, there is debate over whether these institutions matter at all. We argue that party systems do matter for turnout in developing…
Lingua Mercatoria: Language and Foreign Direct Investment
Does language choice attract foreign direct investment (FDI), and if so, how? We argue that language—a dynamic instrument for reducing transaction costs—can influence investors' decision to allocate capital. Potential host countries attract investments by coordinating their domestic language policies—especially those in education—to match the language of the potential FDI investor. We subject our argument to three different tests: (i) a cross-sec…
NGOs, Turnout, and the Left: A Sub-national Analysis of Brazil
This article is designed to examine the role non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play in politics. Previous evidence suggests that NGOs mobilize communities to challenge existing patterns of authority or that they serve hand in glove with existing elites. We reconcile these two contradictory findings by identifying an important contextual feature that helps determine the extent NGOs mobilize or anesthetize. We argue that a community’s level of …
Political Competition and Local Social Spending: Evidence from Brazil
Political Polarization as a Constraint on Corruption: A Cross-national Comparison
The Electoral Consequences of Direct Political Action: Evidence from Brazil
Democracy affords citizens the ability to influence policy through participation in elections and through direct political action. Though previous scholarship evaluates the impact each strategy has on outcomes, little if any work exists that examines how one strategy, direct action, affects success in the other, elections. This study analyzes the relationship between land occupations and the electoral success of the Workers' Party in Brazil betwe…
The Transforming Power of Democracy: Regime Type and the Distribution of Electricity
Theory on democracy and its consequences turns on how democracy influences behavior among politicians and the citizenry. Ultimately, the literature seeks to determine who benefits under democratic rules. This is our concern, posed in a context that allows us to address a classic question: does democracy favor large but diffuse segments of society over small but concentrated interests? We employ sectoral electricity consumption data for a panel of…
Who Gives, Who Receives, and Who Wins: Transforming Capital Into Political Change Through Nongovernmental Organizations
How does international support for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) lead to political change in the developing world? Massive amounts of domestic government spending and international aid are now distributed through NGOs instead of state bureaucracies. Recent scholarship suggests that this decentralization of developmental aid to NGOs has unintended political effects on recipient communities, but the mechanisms driving political effects are u…
The Determinants of Economic Liberalization in Latin America
The Determinants of Economic Liberalization in Latin America
Previous work on political institutions and economic reform provides a number of testable hypotheses that are rarely examined in a multivariate framework. Divided government, political polarization, fragmented legislatures, ideology, external factors, the strength of the presidency, and democracy itself have all been forwarded as possible constraints that influence the depth and speed of economic reform. Using time-series cross-sectional data, th…
The Effects of Capital Mobility, Trade Openness, and Democracy on Social Spending in Latin America, 1980-1999
The Effects of Capital Mobility, Trade Openness, and Democracy on Social Spending in Latin America, 1980–1999
Empirical studies measuring the impact of globalization on social spending have appeared recently in leading journals. This study seeks to improve upon previous work by (1) employing a more sophisticated and comprehensive measure of financial openness; (2) using a more accurate measure of trade openness based on purchasing power parities; and (3) relying on social spending data that are more complete than those used by previous studies on Latin A…
Paving the way to political change: Decentralization of development in the Brazilian Amazon
Democracy and Human Capital Formation: Education Spending in Latin America, 1980 to 1997
This article examines the relationship between democratic representation and spending on education in Latin America. The authors assess the impact that democracy has on the distribution of resources between different levels of schooling and on total spending on education. Specifically, they test whether democratic governments allocate a greater share of resources to primary education, the level that benefits the largest segment of the electorate …
Democracy and Gender Inequality in Education: A Cross-National Examination
This Research Note examines the role democracy plays in explaining the disparity in educational attainment between men and women in a cross-national context. Policies designed to improve education figure prominently in recent attempts by governments, international institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to stimulate economic development. The recent emphasis on education is grounded in a well-established literature in economics on t…
The Determinants of Privatization in Latin America
Previous work on political institutions and economic reform provide a number of testable hypotheses that have yet to be fully examined in a multivariate framework. The strength of the presidency, divided government, political polarization, fragmented legislatures, ideology, and democracy itself have all been forwarded as possible constraints that influence the depth and speed of economic reform. Using time-series cross-sectional data, we provide …
Left Turn on Green: The Unintended Consequences of International Funding for Sustainable Development in Brazil
This article presents the first attempt to examine the political consequences of internationally funded programs that target local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Although the purported mission of NGOs is often economic, humanitarian, or environmental, the authors suggest that their impact is also profoundly political. Injections of international resources into underdeveloped, often clientelistic societies can fundamentally change the natur…
The Effects of Capital Mobility, Trade Openness, and Democracy on Social Spending in Latin America, 1980–1999
Empirical studies measuring the impact of globalization on social spending have appeared recently in leading journals. This study seeks to improve upon previous work by (1) employing a more sophisticated and comprehensive measure of financial openness; (2) using a more accurate measure of trade openness based on purchasing power parities; and (3) relying on social spending data that are more complete than those used by previous studies on Latin A…
Democracy and Social Spending in Latin America, 1980-92
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 alloc…
Democracy and Human Capital Formation: Education Spending in Latin America, 1980 to 1997
This article examines the relationship between democratic representation and spending on education in Latin America. The authors assess the impact that democracy has on the distribution of resources between different levels of schooling and on total spending on education. Specifically, they test whether democratic governments allocate a greater share of resources to primary education, the level that benefits the largest segment of the electorate …
The Diffusion of Democracy, 1946–1994
We examine the relationship between the temporal and spatial aspects of democratic diffusion in the world system since 1946. We find strong and consistent evidence of temporal clustering of democratic and autocratic trends, as well as strong spatial association (or autocorrelation) of democratization. The analysis uses an exploratory data approach in a longitudinal framework to understand global and regional trends in changes in authority structu…
The Transforming Power of Democracy: Regime Type and the Distribution of Electricity
Theory on democracy and its consequences turns on how democracy influences behavior among politicians and the citizenry. Ultimately, the literature seeks to determine who benefits under democratic rules. This is our concern, posed in a context that allows us to address a classic question: does democracy favor large but diffuse segments of society over small but concentrated interests? We employ sectoral electricity consumption data for a panel of…
Reading, Writing, and Regime Type: Democracy' Impact on Primary School Enrollment
This study examines the relationship between democracy and the accumulation of human capital. Specifically, I examine regime type' impact on primary school enrollment in the developing world. The statistical analysis establishes that poor democracies enroll a larger percentage of the school-age population than do their authoritarian counterparts. Models using dichotomous and continuous measures of democracy indicate that the institutions associat…
Political Polarization as a Constraint on Corruption: A Cross-national Comparison
World Bank Directives, Domestic Interests, and the Politics of Human Capital Investment in Latin America
Recent studies underscore the importance of international organizations in transmitting norms, ideas, and values to developing countries. But has this diffusion influenced government policy in less developed countries? During the past two decades, the World Bank has emphasized the need for Third World governments to increase the stock of human capital by investing in education and health. Specifically, it has encouraged developing countries to sh…
Who Gives, Who Receives, and Who Wins: Transforming Capital Into Political Change Through Nongovernmental Organizations
How does international support for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) lead to political change in the developing world? Massive amounts of domestic government spending and international aid are now distributed through NGOs instead of state bureaucracies. Recent scholarship suggests that this decentralization of developmental aid to NGOs has unintended political effects on recipient communities, but the mechanisms driving political effects are u…
Lingua Mercatoria: Language and Foreign Direct Investment
Does language choice attract foreign direct investment (FDI), and if so, how? We argue that language—a dynamic instrument for reducing transaction costs—can influence investors' decision to allocate capital. Potential host countries attract investments by coordinating their domestic language policies—especially those in education—to match the language of the potential FDI investor. We subject our argument to three different tests: (i) a cross-sec…
Reading, Writing, and Regime Type: Democracy's Impact on Primary School Enrollment
Democracy and Gender Inequality in Education: A Cross-National Examination
This Research Note examines the role democracy plays in explaining the disparity in educational attainment between men and women in a cross-national context. Policies designed to improve education figure prominently in recent attempts by governments, international institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to stimulate economic development. The recent emphasis on education is grounded in a well-established literature in economics on t…
Do political parties matter for turnout? Number of parties, electoral rules and local elections in Brazil and Bolivia
Does the number of political parties influence voter turnout in developing democracies? Some scholars argue that large party systems facilitate matching voter preferences with a specific party, increasing turnout. Others argue multiparty systems produce too many alternatives, decreasing turnout. In developing democracies, there is debate over whether these institutions matter at all. We argue that party systems do matter for turnout in developing…
Political Competition and Local Social Spending: Evidence from Brazil
The Determinants of Privatization in Latin America
Previous work on political institutions and economic reform provide a number of testable hypotheses that have yet to be fully examined in a multivariate framework. The strength of the presidency, divided government, political polarization, fragmented legislatures, ideology, and democracy itself have all been forwarded as possible constraints that influence the depth and speed of economic reform. Using time-series cross-sectional data, we provide …
Democracy, Colonization, and Human Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Determinants of Economic Liberalization in Latin America
Previous work on political institutions and economic reform provides a number of testable hypotheses that are rarely examined in a multivariate framework. Divided government, political polarization, fragmented legislatures, ideology, external factors, the strength of the presidency, and democracy itself have all been forwarded as possible constraints that influence the depth and speed of economic reform. Using time-series cross-sectional data, th…
Left Turn on Green: The Unintended Consequences of International Funding for Sustainable Development in Brazil
This article presents the first attempt to examine the political consequences of internationally funded programs that target local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Although the purported mission of NGOs is often economic, humanitarian, or environmental, the authors suggest that their impact is also profoundly political. Injections of international resources into underdeveloped, often clientelistic societies can fundamentally change the natur…
Democracy, Authoritarianism and Education Finance in Brazil
In view of the inconclusive statistical results associated with democracy's impact on economic performance, this article unpacks the dependent variable (economic development) by examining democratisation's impact on education policy. To determine whether democracy compels politicians to provide higher levels of educational opportunity, it traces the process of repression and democratisation in Brazil along with government spending on education. I…
Land occupations and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Due Process and Homicide: A Cross-National Analysis
As democracy advances in many regions throughout the world, it is often accompanied by increasing violence. Most cross-national analyses find that an inverted U-shaped relationship exists between homicide and democracy: homicide rates are highest in hybrid regimes and lowest in authoritarian and democratic regimes. While a fairly robust empirical result, little is known about why it exists. We identify a specific institution—due process—that cuts…
The Effects of Capital Mobility, Trade Openness, and Democracy on Social Spending in Latin America, 1980-1999
Paving the way to political change: Decentralization of development in the Brazilian Amazon
The Next Step in Case Studies
Integrating the Use of Statistical Software into Undergraduate Political Methodology Courses
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The Public Advisory Board as an Instrument of Government
F EW institutions of government have multiplied so rapidly in the past twentyfive years as the public advisory committee. Its closest kin, the industry advisory committee, proliferates in times of emergency but dwindles toward the vanishing point once the war is over or the crisis past. With the public advisory board, there are no such ups and downs. The record since 1938, when there were fewer than ioo in the entire federal government, is one of…
"Sharing "Policy in Prospect: ECA's Weekly Digest
3 HE problems of bureaucratic bigness are today apparent to business and government alike. Even so, there is no ready solution to them, nor any real possibility of returning to the good old days of limited, or locally contained, operations. The need for large-scale organization cannot, of course, be challenged. What remains is the exploration of ways and means of decentralizing more effectively. In general, decentralization is being accomplished …
The Next Step in Case Studies
Some Questions in Retrospect
The Staff Man Looks in the Mirror
A GREAT deal has been said and written during the past 25 years about the staff functions. In addition to the many articles and books, some 30 or 40 universities are now offering graduate level courses on such subjects as personnel administration, budgeting, management analysis, and planning. Each year, hundreds of young men and women enter careers in the staff areas in government alone, in addition to many thousands more in private business. Thi…
The Key to Self-Help: Improving the Administrative Capabilities of the Aid-Receiving Countries
T HERE are few more troublesome questions facing the American people today than those involving the foreign aid program. Not only is there substantial disagreement over the amount of aid, but there are wide differences of opinion also on how it should be provided. The purpose of this paper is not to dwell on these differences. Rather, it attempts to suggest an approach holding long-range hope for reducing not only American responsibilities in the…
The President and the Bureaus: Time for a Renewal of Relationships
A PRESIDENT of the United States is known I ~to history by the policies of his AdLI ministration. This is as it should be. But to those who work closely with him in an administrative way, who share the responsibilities for the operational effectiveness of the bureaucracy which helps shape and put these policies into effect, there are other standards as well by which he is judged. Roosevelt, for example, will be remembered not only for the enthusi…
The Management of Advisory Committees: An Assignment for the '70's
Public interest in and use of advisory committees* continues to grow apace. One finds them at all levels of government: federal, state, and local, performing the most startling variety of tasks: in school systems, universities, hospitals, and churches; in research centers, labor unions, and legislatures; as advisors to presidents, publishers, and police departments; and, most recently of all, in private industry. There are advisory committees whi…
"Reforming" the Bureaucracy: Some Suggestions for the New President
What he does, and how he goes about it, of course, is of great concern to all of us. He has spoken frequently of reorganizing, of consolidating government bureaus and programs and eliminating unnecessary ones. But he has also, and perhaps more realistically, talked of developing new policy-making and management machinery, of the use of zero-base budgeting, of the adoption of sunset laws, of streamlining federal operations, and of cutting the fat …
Petronius or Ogburn
Landscapes of Consequence: English Landscape Painting in Some Recent Exhibitions
It would be a foolish critic who now dared to consider English landscape painting in isolation from continental traditions, and a positively perverse one who regarded artists such as Constable and Gainsborough as untaught 'innocent eyes'; indeed it has sometimes seemed as if the very failure of a painter to travel abroad has been an extra provocation to historians to search out continental influences on his work. Recognition of the impact of the …
Managing the Large Organization: Issues, Ideas, Precepts, Innovations
Management's Hidden Enemy
The Diffusion of Democracy, 1946–1994
We examine the relationship between the temporal and spatial aspects of democratic diffusion in the world system since 1946. We find strong and consistent evidence of temporal clustering of democratic and autocratic trends, as well as strong spatial association (or autocorrelation) of democratization. The analysis uses an exploratory data approach in a longitudinal framework to understand global and regional trends in changes in authority structu…
Reading, Writing, and Regime Type: Democracy' Impact on Primary School Enrollment
This study examines the relationship between democracy and the accumulation of human capital. Specifically, I examine regime type' impact on primary school enrollment in the developing world. The statistical analysis establishes that poor democracies enroll a larger percentage of the school-age population than do their authoritarian counterparts. Models using dichotomous and continuous measures of democracy indicate that the institutions associat…
Reading, Writing, and Regime Type: Democracy's Impact on Primary School Enrollment
Democracy and Social Spending in Latin America, 1980-92
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 alloc…
Democracy, Colonization, and Human Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Bank Directives, Domestic Interests, and the Politics of Human Capital Investment in Latin America
Recent studies underscore the importance of international organizations in transmitting norms, ideas, and values to developing countries. But has this diffusion influenced government policy in less developed countries? During the past two decades, the World Bank has emphasized the need for Third World governments to increase the stock of human capital by investing in education and health. Specifically, it has encouraged developing countries to sh…
Left Turn on Green: The Unintended Consequences of International Funding for Sustainable Development in Brazil
This article presents the first attempt to examine the political consequences of internationally funded programs that target local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Although the purported mission of NGOs is often economic, humanitarian, or environmental, the authors suggest that their impact is also profoundly political. Injections of international resources into underdeveloped, often clientelistic societies can fundamentally change the natur…
Democracy, Authoritarianism and Education Finance in Brazil
In view of the inconclusive statistical results associated with democracy's impact on economic performance, this article unpacks the dependent variable (economic development) by examining democratisation's impact on education policy. To determine whether democracy compels politicians to provide higher levels of educational opportunity, it traces the process of repression and democratisation in Brazil along with government spending on education. I…
The Determinants of Privatization in Latin America
Previous work on political institutions and economic reform provide a number of testable hypotheses that have yet to be fully examined in a multivariate framework. The strength of the presidency, divided government, political polarization, fragmented legislatures, ideology, and democracy itself have all been forwarded as possible constraints that influence the depth and speed of economic reform. Using time-series cross-sectional data, we provide …
Democracy and Human Capital Formation: Education Spending in Latin America, 1980 to 1997
This article examines the relationship between democratic representation and spending on education in Latin America. The authors assess the impact that democracy has on the distribution of resources between different levels of schooling and on total spending on education. Specifically, they test whether democratic governments allocate a greater share of resources to primary education, the level that benefits the largest segment of the electorate …
Democracy and Gender Inequality in Education: A Cross-National Examination
This Research Note examines the role democracy plays in explaining the disparity in educational attainment between men and women in a cross-national context. Policies designed to improve education figure prominently in recent attempts by governments, international institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to stimulate economic development. The recent emphasis on education is grounded in a well-established literature in economics on t…
The Determinants of Economic Liberalization in Latin America
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