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Public goods and diversity in democracies and non-democracies
Institute for Public and Regional Economics, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Department of Economics, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Economics. Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE).
2024 (English)In: Kyklos (Basel), ISSN 0023-5962, E-ISSN 1467-6435, Vol. 77, no 3, p. 496-519Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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This paper analyzes how ethnic diversity affects the provision of public goods in democratic and non-democratic societies when political parties compete for voter support by offering a mix of private and public goods. Our model implies that increasing diversity that leads to more heterogeneous preferences for public goods decreases the provision of public goods in democracies, where political power is distributed equally among citizens, while there is a weaker or no effect in non-democracies, where political power is distributed unequally among citizens. When measuring diversity by ethnic fractionalization and public good provision by either levels of government expenses, expenditures on health, or life expectancy, we indeed observe a negative association between diversity and the provision of public goods in democracies but no or only a weak association in non-democracies.

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John Wiley & Sons, 2024. Vol. 77, no 3, p. 496-519
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-63859DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12374ISI: 001178635300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85186923880Local ID: HOA;intsam;943074OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-63859DiVA, id: diva2:1846158
Available from: 2024-03-21 Created: 2024-03-21 Last updated: 2025-01-12Bibliographically approved

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