How Do Sectoral Interests Shape Distributive Politics? Evidence from Gasoline and Diesel Subsidy Reforms.
Sectoral interests play an important role in distributive politics, but their influence is difficult to measure. We compare the effect of international oil prices on subsidies for domestic gasoline and diesel consumption. Because diesel is used by a smaller number of organized agricultural and trans...
| Publicado en: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 420 - 448 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=137414550&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 137414550 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1541132X MJJ jtl: Review of Policy Research issn: 1541132X maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jul2019 vid: 36 iid: 4 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 137414550 10.1111/ropr.12335 ppf: 420 ppct: 28 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P size: 307KB tig: atl: How Do Sectoral Interests Shape Distributive Politics? Evidence from Gasoline and Diesel Subsidy Reforms. aug: au: Blankenship, Brian Urpelainen, Johannes affil: Dartmouth College Johns Hopkins SAIS su: Power (Social sciences) Practical politics Economic sectors Energy subsidies Gas prices Diesel fuels sug: subj: Power (Social sciences) Practical politics Other fuel dealers Petroleum Refineries Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers Economic sectors Energy subsidies Gas prices Diesel fuels keyword: energy environment governance national governance Energía Gobernanza gobernanza nacional medio ambiente 国家治理 治理 环境 能源 energy environment governance national governance Energía Gobernanza gobernanza nacional medio ambiente 国家治理 治理 环境 能源 ab: Sectoral interests play an important role in distributive politics, but their influence is difficult to measure. We compare the effect of international oil prices on subsidies for domestic gasoline and diesel consumption. Because diesel is used by a smaller number of organized agricultural and transportation interests, they are more capable of collective action than the dispersed beneficiaries of gasoline subsidies. The conventional wisdom holds that sectoral interests could mobilize to stop reform (e.g., price increases, deregulation). Challenging this view, we consider the possibility that sectoral interests promote reform by facilitating the targeted allocation of compensation and exemptions. An empirical analysis of gasoline and diesel prices, 1991–2012, strongly supports the second hypothesis: diesel prices respond to international oil prices more strongly than do gasoline prices. Quantitative tests and case studies allow us to explore causal mechanisms, verify that the gasoline‐diesel difference is related to actual policy reforms, and reject alternative explanations. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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