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State-building on the Margin : An Urban Experiment in Medellin

Blattman, Christopher; Duncan, Gustavo; Lessing, Benjamin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Medellin's government wanted to raise its efficacy, legitimacy, and control. The city identified 80 neighborhoods with weak state presence and competing armed actors. In half, they increased non-police street presence tenfold for two years, offering social services and dispute resolution. In...

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Local Government Budgeting : The Econometric Comparison of Political and Bureaucratic Models

Feldstein, Martin - 1977

The current paper presents a method of deciding the question of whether any given stage in the budget process is an example of the "political" or the "bureaucratic" model. We then use it to study local government spending on education. The basis for our method is the important difference between...

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Minority Representation in Local Government

Beach, Brian - 2018

Does minority representation in a legislative body differentially impact outcomes for minorities? To examine this question, we study close elections for California city council seats between white and nonwhite candidates. We find that nonwhite candidates generate differential gains in housing...

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Provincial and Local Governments in China : Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior

Gordon, Roger H. - 2011

What are the incentives faced by local officials in China? Without democratic institutions, there is no mechanism for local residents to exercise "voice". Given the hukou registration system, local residents have little opportunity to threaten "exit" if they are unhappy with local taxes and...

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Electoral Accountability and Corruption : Evidence from the Audits of Local Governments

Ferraz, Claudio - 2009

corruption practices of incumbent politicians. We find significantly less corruption in municipalities where mayors can get …-election incentives. These effects are more pronounced among municipalities with less access to information and where the likelihood of …

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Motivating Politicians : The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance

Ferraz, Claudio - 2009

across Brazil's municipal governments. The analysis exploits discontinuities in wages across municipalities induced by a …

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Government Form and Public Spending : Theory and Evidence from U.S. Municipalities

Coate, Stephen - 2009

There are two main forms of government in U.S. cities: council-manager and mayor-council. This paper develops a theory of fiscal policy determination under these two forms. The theory predicts that expected public spending will be lower under mayor-council, but that either form of government...

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Rent Seeking and the Unveiling of 'De Facto' Institutions : Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil

Naritomi, Joana - 2007

institutions, and argue that this variation reveals a de facto dimension of institutional quality. We show that municipalities with … -- display today more inequality in the distribution of land. Municipalities with origins tracing back to the gold colonial cycle …

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"Sick of Local Government Corruption? Vote Islamic"

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2006

Indonesia has a tradition of corruption among local officials who harass and collect bribes from firms. Corruption … level data set for 2001 that benchmarks bribing activity and harassment at the time when Indonesia decentralized key …. Islamic parties in Indonesia are perceived as being anti-corruption. Our data show voting patterns reflect this belief and …

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Corruption in Cities : Graft and Politics in American Cities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Menes, Rebecca - 2003

The essay is an exploration of corruption as practiced by city politicians in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Corruption is generally considered to be bad for the performance of governments and for the growth and development of economies, but American cities grew rapidly...

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