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This paper identifies a puzzling fact: countries that are more democratic tend to have roads in worse conditions than less democratic countries. Using lagged values of a democracy index to instrument for democracy in 1980 yields higher estimates of the magnitude of this association. Instruments based on climate, population, and education yield similar results. Changes to a more democratic government are similarly associated with slower growth of the extension of the paved road network. I advance four nonmutually exclusive hypotheses that can explain the results. More saliently, dictatorships might find highways useful for military and repressive purposes. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keyword:
democracy
infrastructures
political economy
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