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How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour? Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania
Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne - 2018
Does self-serving elite behaviour make citizens more politically active? This paper presents the results of a randomized field experiment where voters in Tanzania were given information about elite use of tax havens. Information provided in a neutral form had no effect on voting intentions....
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The education sector in Mozambique: From access to epistemic quality in primary education
Mário, Mouzinho; Monjane, Celso Marcos; Santos, Ricardo - 2020
From the early days of national independence in 1975, the central aim of the educational policy in Mozambique has been to ensure that all school-age children have access to school and can remain there until they have completed their basic education. In the pursuit of this aim, the extension of...
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Donors for tax morale: Evidence from 34 African countries
Belmonte, Alessandro; Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica - 2021
Do aid projects affect citizens' motivation to pay taxes? We address this question by combining fine-grained data on aid projects from AidData and survey data from the Afrobarometer for 34 African countries. We first employ a subnational analysis, where the treatment varies by administrative...
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The pandemic and the state: Interrogating capacity and response to COVID-19 in West Bengal
Mahmood, Zaad; Chakraborty, Achin - 2022
COVID-19 has brought to the fore the issue of state preparedness in mitigating health emergencies. This paper problematizes the received wisdom of greater state capacity in mitigating the severity of the pandemic. Based on a case study of West Bengal, a subnational state of India, it shows that...
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How do governments become great? Ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda
Andrews, Matt - 2013
Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....
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Clientelism and governance
Bardhan, Pranab K. - 2021
Unlike much of the growing literature on political clientelism, this short paper contains mainly the author's general reflections on the broad issues of governance (or mis-governance including corruption), democracy, and state capacity that clientelism has an impact on. It then analyses how its...
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Is economic development affected by the leaders' education levels? Evidence from India
Jain, Chandan; Kashyap, Shagun; Lahoti, Rahul; Sahoo, Soham - 2022
Although formal education is often considered an indicator of political leaders' quality, the evidence on the effectiveness of educated leaders is mixed. Besides, minimum education qualifications are increasingly being used as requirements for contesting elections, making it critical to...
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Who trusts? Ethnicity, integration, and attitudes toward elected officials in urban Nigeria
LeBas, Adrienne - 2017
clientelistic exchange shape trust in elected officials as well? And does it continue to do so as cross-ethnic contact and … and experiences with the state affect trust in elected officials, especially at the local level. The paper finds that the … trust deficit associated with local ethnic minority status does not significantly diminish as these individuals integrate …
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The political economy dimensions of macroeconomic management of aid in Ghana
Osei, Robert Darko; Asem, Freda; Domfe, George - 2013
This paper contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by looking at the 'how' of aid effectiveness. In other words it provides an assessment of whether aid only filled a financing gap or whether it, in addition, helped influence the political economy in a way that engendered growth. Ghana...
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Worker retraining and transfer payments: The political economy of social protection
Jain, Sanjay - 2017
We conduct an incentive-theoretical analysis of political economy considerations in the design of social protection programmes in developing countries to accompany economic reforms. We focus on two aspects of social protection - the provision of redistribution and retraining - that arguably...
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