Democracy and Health in Developing Countries
New Cross-National Evidence, 1990-2016
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2363717 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven A Mejia (0000-0001-8929-5404, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 981-1000 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/07311214221082689 |
| OpenAlex | W4220945296 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 65 |
Scholars have long investigated the factors that affect health outcomes in less-developed countries. One debate that has increasingly intensified in recent years is the democracy and health relationship in comparative international context. Scholars argue that democracy does affect country-level health outcomes in less-developed countries, while others argue democracy does not affect country-level health outcomes. I estimate the effect of numerous democracy indexes on child mortality and infant mortality in developing countries using fixed effects regression models with heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors clustered by country. I find that multiple aspects of democracy exert significant beneficial effects on child mortality and infant mortality in less-developed countries
Child mortality · Democracy · Demographic economics · Developing country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Politics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · International Development and Aid · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment, and Climate Change
Explaining Global Inequities in Measles Vaccination Rates
Economic Development and the Environment
Impact of democracy on economic, human, and societal development
Democracy, accountability, and forest loss
Is Democracy Associated with Reduction of Poverty, Child Mortality and Child Deprivation in Low-income Countries
Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment
The domestic and global determinants of hunger
Political decentralisation and the spatial distribution of infant mortality in less developed nations
Clientelism and Forest loss in a Macro-Comparative perspective
The economic growth effects of foreign direct investment in developing countries, 1980–2019
Does Democracy Matter for Lifespan Inequalities? Regime Type and Premature Mortality by Sex
The effects of liberal and illiberal world society on women's legislative representation, 1970–2018
The harmful effects of primary sector foreign direct investment on carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries, 2000–2018
Global inequities in the prevalence of undernourishment
Globalization, foreign direct investment, and child mortality
(In)sufficient institutionalization? Norm articulation in the World Health Organization and infectious disease prevalence across the global South
International Trade and the Environment
Harmful Side Effects
The effects of economic globalization on fertility in developing countries, 1990-2018
Democracy Does Improve Health
Greening the Globe
Econometric Analysis of Panel Data
Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment
World-Systems Analysis
Constructing World Culture
Robust Standard Errors for Panel Regressions with Cross-Sectional Dependence
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Democracy and Development
Freedom in the World
On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
Health and Democracy
Does Critical Mass Matter? Women's Political Representation and Child Health in Developing Countries
The International Monetary Fund, Structural Adjustment, and Infant Mortality
The status of women
Effects of Global Democracy on Women's Reproductive Health
The Comparative Survey of Freedom
Reassessing the Effect of Economic Growth on Well-being in Less-developed Countries, 1980–2003
Does foreign capital dependence affect carbon dioxide emissions in less‐developed countries? A cross‐national analysis, 1980–2014
National Politics, International Dependency, and Basic Needs Provision
Districting and Government Overspending
A Cross-National Analysis of Sex-Specific HIV Prevalence Rates and Women's Access to Property, Land, and Loans in Developing Countries
The Climate Crisis and Export Intensity
Do Non-Governmental Organizations Impact Health
Democracy and child health in developing countries
World Society, NGOs and Environmental Policy Reform in Asia
The Impact of Regime Type on Health
Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Social Spending in Latin America
Democracy as a Universal Value
Democracy, Dictatorship, and Infant Mortality
Can International Nongovernmental Organizations Boost Government Services? The Case of Health
The Invisible Hand of Democracy
Democracy and Human Capital Formation
Politics, the State, and Basic Human Needs
Is Democracy Good for the Poor
The Effects of Capital Mobility, Trade Openness, and Democracy on Social Spending in Latin America, 1980–1999
Dependence, Distorted Development, and Fertility Trends in Noncore Nations
Does Economic Growth Benefit the Masses? Growth, Dependence, and Welfare in the Third World
Issues in the Comparative Measurement of Political Democracy
Is the political system really related to health
Maternal mortality, women's status, and economic dependency in less developed countries
Dependency, democracy, and infant mortality
The post-war public health effects of civil conflict
The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century
Education as a Factor in Mortality Decline An Examination of Nigerian Data
The role of democracy in Uganda's move to universal primary education
Liberal Democracy Series I, 1972-1988
World health inequality
Democracy and Social Spending in Latin America, 1980-92
Does Political Democracy Enhance Human Development in Developing Countries
The Long Term Effects of Globalization on Income Inequality, Population Growth, and Economic Development
Foreign Direct Investment Dependence and the Neglected Greenhouse Gas
Global Environmentalism and the World-System
Democracy and Infant Mortality in Less-Developed Nations
The Impact of Democracy or Repressiveness on the Quality of Life, Income Distribution and Economic Growth Rates
Political Democracy, Economic Development, Disarticulation, and Social Well-Being in Developing Countries
World Society and the Nation-State
Institutionalized Organizations
Political Democracy and the Physical Quality of Life
Multinational Corporations, Democracy and Child Mortality
Do some authoritarian governments foster physical quality of life
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |