Democracy, Dictatorship, and Default: Urban-rural Bias and Economic Crises Across Regimes
- ISBN-10
- 1108819133
- ISBN-13
- 9781108819138
- Category
- Debts, Public
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Author
- Cameron Ballard-Rosa
Description
"Sovereign debt default is an often catastrophic form of economic crisis that can affect the entire global economy. The IMF predicts that, in the coming years, over 50 countries are at risk of default. Yet, we understand little about the political determinants of this decision to renege on promises to international creditors. This book develops and tests the first unified theory of how domestic politics explains sovereign default across dictatorships and democracies. I argue that both democratic and autocratic governments will default when doing so is necessary for their political survival; however, regime type has a significant impact on what specific kinds of threats leaders face. While dictatorships are concerned with avoiding urban riots, democratic governments are concerned with losing elections, in particular the support of rural voting blocs. Using cross-national data and historical case studies, I show that leaders under each regime type are more likely to default when doing so allows them to keep funding costly policies supporting critical bases of support"--
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