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Initial conditions matter : social capital and participatory development
Cameron, Lisa Ann; Olivia, Susan; Shah, Manisha - 2015
Billions of dollars have been spent on participatory development programs in the developing world. These programs give community members an active decision-making role. Given the emphasis on community involvement, one might expect that the effectiveness of this approach would depend on...
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Registering returning citizens to vote
Doleac, Jennifer L.; Eckhouse, Laurel; Foster-Moore, Eric; … - 2021
Millions of people in the US are eligible to vote despite past criminal convictions, but their voter participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168158
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Towards economic democracy and social justice : profit sharing, co-determination, and employee ownership
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2020
propose redistributive tax and welfare reform, extended codetermination, subsidised profit sharing and employee buyouts. …
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Income changes do not influence political participation: evidence from comparative panel data
Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021
The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects …
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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid : an experimental study
D'Exelle, Ben (contributor); Riedl, Arno (contributor) - 2008
We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...
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Minorities, social capital and voting
Bevelander, Pieter (contributor); Pendakur, Ravi (contributor) - 2007
It is widely held that voter turnout among immigrants and ethnic minorities is lower than among the native born. The goal of our paper is to explore the determinants of voting, comparing immigrant, minority and majority citizens in Canada. We use the 2002 wave of the Equality Security Community...
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Bureaucratic delay, local-level monitoring, and delivery of small infrastructure projects : evidence from a field experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - 2012
This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots...
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Homeownership, social capital and parental voice in schooling
Grimes, Arthur L.; Stillman, Steven; Young, Chris - 2011
We use New Zealand school board of trustees data to examine whether schools where parents have high rates of homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the probability that a school board proceeds to election,...
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Why pay NGOs to involve the community?
Burger, Ronelle; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Owens, Trudy - 2014
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that … extent of community participation implemented by an NGO. Higher community participation is consistent even with reduced … beneficiary welfare. Thus, eliminating community participation from the set of conditions for funding an NGO may improve …
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From citizen's rights to civic responsibilities
Ronconi, Lucas - 2019
In less developed countries the state does not extends its legality homogenously. A share of the population suffers its absence or its illegal presence. In this article we argue that such irregular state intervention has more negative consequences that previously thought. Individuals who suffer...
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