@article{Beghin:259512,
      recid = {259512},
      author = {Beghin, John C.  and Kherallah, Mylene },
      title = {Political Institutions and International Patterns of  Agricultural Protection},
      address = {1991-04-01},
      number = {1907-2017-1898},
      pages = {25},
      year = {1991},
      abstract = {This paper analyzes the influence of political systems and  rights in patterns of agricultural protection across  commodities, countries and over time. Four political  systems (dictatorship, one-party, dominant party,  democracy) and an index of political rights account for  differences in political institutions. The analysis also  incorporates the effects of development, of constraints on  tax collection feasibility, and of comparative advantages  and terms of trade. Pluralistic systems are associated with  higher agricultural protection levels, although in a  nonlinear fashion. Access to pluralism appears to be  important, although further democratization {from dominant  party system to democracy) does not induce more  distortions.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/259512},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.259512},
}