Question

to protect farmers at the cost of consumers whereas aut horitarian regimestend to subsidize urban residents." Evaluate this statemet. Provide a few hypotheses about why this might or might not be the case.

Answer 1

Rich democracies fix a minimum support price for the agricultural crops produced by the farmers. This is because the farmers need economic protection to find farming viable in a rich democracy. The government knows that the consumers of these agricultural products are relatively wealthy and can pay a slightly higher price for better quality food. In authoritarian regimes such as fascism and communism, the government is more concerned about conumer welfare in order to prepare an able workforce for organizing its regime and farmers are coerced to work even in the absence of any protection or subsidies.