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Impact of episodes of regime transformation on subjective well-being: A panel event study

Vol. 17, No 1, 2024

Gabriele Prati

 

University of Bologna,

Bologna, Italy

E-mail: gabriele.prati@unibo.it

ORCID 0000-0002-0749-183X

 

Impact of episodes of regime transformation on subjective well-being: A panel event study

 

 

 

Abstract. This study aims to investigate the impact of a transition from democracy to autocracy (an autocratization event) and from autocracy to democracy (a democratization event) on three indicators of subjective well-being: life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect. Data on episodes of regime transformation was taken from the Varieties of Democracy, while data on subjective well-being was extracted from the Gallup World Poll. The combined dataset comprised data on 166 countries from 2005 to 2021. Over this period, 22 autocratization events and 18 democratization events occurred. The study used a panel event study framework and controlled for GDP per capita. The results show no clear and consistent evidence of an impact of regime transformation in either direction (democratization or autocratization) on the three indicators of subjective well-being. The findings also indicate the absence of any causal effect between the episodes of regime change and subjective well-being.

 

Received: May, 2023

1st Revision: January, 2024

Accepted: March, 2024

 

DOI: 10.14254/2071-789X.2024/17-1/1

JEL ClassificationD91, C21, A13, I30

Keywords: democracy, autocracy, well-being, life satisfaction, panel event study, causality