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Distribution Mortality The political economy of health: death, disease and distribution Bernhard, William T. Bernhard, William T. Pahre, Robert D. Hays, Jude C. Gaines, Brian J. Meserve, Stephen A. 2011-08-25T22:12:11Z 2011-08-25T22:12:11Z 2011-08-25T22:12:11Z 2011-08 Death and disease exact a heavy toll on citizens in democracies. In response, citizens expect elected politicians to alleviate their suffering by providing public health funding to afflicted areas. I argue that the funding of health policy in democracies is subject to distributional incentives similar to other government policies. Patterns of government control, partisanship, strategic importance and quality of legislative representation condition the provision of public health funding within countries. In turn, public health spending conditions district mortality outcomes. I examine evidence from turn of the century France, United States and modern India to test this theory. First, I consider qualitative evidence of the distribution of health funds. I then assemble administrative district level electoral, budgetary and health information and predict levels of health funding and resulting mortality rates. Political importance, not just need, plays a prominent role in determining who lives and dies in democracies. This has profound implications for the plight of modern democracies facing disease threats. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2011-06-27T21:39:56Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Meserve_Stephen.tex: 302917 bytes, checksum: 7e02d2a09adc55a8c89bb64933b46532 (MD5) Meserve_Stephen.pdf: 1717724 bytes, checksum: 6cea4f6b2b21045ef3183c96c01c3d69 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-08-25T22:12:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Meserve_Stephen.pdf: 1717724 bytes, checksum: 6cea4f6b2b21045ef3183c96c01c3d69 (MD5) license.txt: 4064 bytes, checksum: 3275c250ed0b4b04451edea2a9bdd0e4 (MD5) Meserve_Stephen.tex: 302917 bytes, checksum: 7e02d2a09adc55a8c89bb64933b46532 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/26079 en c 2011 by Stephen August Meserve. All rights reserved. Comparative Political Economy Comparative Politics Health Disease Political Science 1710 Political Science 0343 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Political Science -UIUC 10KS0343PHD