This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which …

Unique survey data is used to study whether the introduction of local elections in China made local leaders more … the top-down introduction of elections across villages is studied to estimate the causal effects of elections and find … that elections affected policy outcomes in a way that is consistent with the predicted effects of increased local leader …

The Indonesian House of Representatives is due to pass a bill ending direct elections of local leaders, leaving the … selection process to legislators in regional parliaments. Is such a move missing the forest for the trees? …

candidates out of 4119 candidates who are contesting in the Maharashtra Assembly Elections of 2014. The effort has been to cover …

As Nepal prepares to hold the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections on 19th November 2013, there already seems to be one … elections. Law has finally caught up though accountability for the violations committed during the conflict remains elusive …

This study investigates the effects of introducing elections on public goods and redistribution in rural China. A large … staggered timing of the introduction of elections for causal identification. It was found that elections significantly increase … local taxes. IT that elections cause significant income redistribution within villages. The results support the basic …