01518nam a22001697a 4500 510458 510458 190818b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Baker, Andy 8506 Does democratization lower consumer prices? Regime type, prices, and the consumer–producer tradeoff 2019 p.145-160. The booming literature on the consequences of democratization for material welfare has produced no findings on the relationship between regime type and relative consumer prices. The literature largely shows that democracies favor masses over elites, generating the expectation that democratization should lower consumer prices. Yet it also finds that democratization boosts economic growth, an outcome that is partially contingent on making consumer goods expensive relative to capital goods. We argue that democratization lowers relative consumer prices since politicians under democracy can more effectively chase votes by satisfying consumers’ demands for the immediate payoff of lower prices. Our statistical analysis of 160-plus countries over 60 years shows that democratization raises consumer advantage, which is the consumer price level relative to the price level of capital goods. We also provide evidence of the policy levers that democratizing countries have used to achieve this effect. - Reproduced. Consumers 8507 Wojcik, Stefan 8508 International Political Science Review Democratization AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 384388 IIPA IIPA 2019-08-18 40(2), Mar, 2019: p.145-160. AR120337 2019-08-18 AR