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Democracy,
Trade, and the Size of Nations
RECENT PAPER:
Hiscox, Michael J. and David A. Lake. Democracy
and Territory: Regimes, Rent Seeking, and the Size of States. Version:
3/1/04. Examines the relationship between democracy and the size of nation
states, employing a simple model of rent-seeking by ruling coalitions in
an international system in which the expansion and contraction of state
size is possible. We argue that (non-federal) democracies tend to be smaller
than autocracies on average because ruling coalitions in the latter have
greater incentives to expand the territory under their control in order
to earn more rents.
RELATED PUBLICATION:
Hiscox, Michael J. Political
Integration and Disintegration in the Global Economy. In Globalizing
Authority, Miles Kahler and David Lake (eds.). Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2003. Argues that globalization will have very different
effects on the incentives for political devolution among sub-national regions
depending on the degree to which export industries are geographically concentrated. |
