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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2025
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
CITP Working Paper No. 027
Verlag: 
Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP), University of Sussex Business School, Brighton
Zusammenfassung: 
Recent research has demonstrated that US states are bellwethers of national institutional decline, acting as 'laboratories of autocratisation' through voter repression and gerrymandering. We provide the first evidence on the economic consequences of sub-national democratic backsliding in the United States. We find that backsliding episodes during 2000-2023 do not systematically lead to a reduction in per capita income but do cause an increase in inequality and impoverishment. Innovation efforts (business R&D expenditure) and outputs (patenting) contract substantially, undermining the endogenous growth engine of the economy. International exports are unaffected, which suggests that foreign accountability operates through national-level institutions rather than sub-national ones.
Schlagwörter: 
democratic backsliding
difference-in-differences
heterogeneity
interactivefixed effects
trade gravity model
JEL: 
P16
F13
F14
C23
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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