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Incumbent advantage, voter information and vote buying
Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip; Labonne, Julien - 2016
Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It...
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The political economy of pension reform : public opinion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Machado, Fabiana V.P.; Vesga, Giselle - 2015
Countries around the world are facing important challenges to the sustainability of their pension systems. Changing policies, especially those of large scope and financial magnitude, is a political challenge. It takes a combination of willingness, capacity and enough political support to change...
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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy : lessons from youth enfranchisement
Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020
Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous suffrage extensions suggest that there are systematic differences between what parliaments decide and what voters want with respect to enfranchisement of new groups. This paper...
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Migración forzada y finanzas públicas locales : evidencia de los municipios en Colombia
Traettino, Salvador - 2023
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Liberation technology : mobile phones and political mobilization in Africa
Manacorda, Marco; Tesei, Andrea - 2016
Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with geo-referenced data from multiple sources on the...
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Calling for nexus thinking in Africa's energy planning
De Strasser, Lucia - 2017
competition. The situation in Africa is particularly problematic, as the continent lags behind all others in terms of quality and …
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Digitalization for energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa : challenges, opportunities and potential business models
Mazzoni, Davide - 2019
collection, are already giving a big contribution in fostering the access to electricity and clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa …. This paper gives an overview on the actual state of energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa and the current technologies used … Africa, financial aspects and market analysis. The perspective of both companies and end-users have been considered here. The …
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The political economy of redistribution and (in) efficiency in Latin America and The Caribbean
Altube, Matias Guizzo; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, … - 2023
Predominant views on the political economy of Latin America and the Caribbean tend to emphasize that elite domination helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like “the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence...
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Does citizen participation in budget allocation pay? : a survey experiment on political trust and participatory governance
Ardanaz, Martin; Otálvaro-Ramírez, Susana; … - 2022
Participatory programs can reduce the informational and power asymmetries that engender mistrust. These programs, however, cannot include every citizen. Hence, it is important to evaluate if providing information about those programs could affect trust among those who do not participate. We...
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Politics, policies and the dynamics of aggregate productivity in Colombia
Eslava, Marcela; Meléndez Arjona, Marcela - 2009
This paper describes private actors involvement in Colombia s policymaking process. While more transparent and formal channels are used to discuss horizontal policies, they are also less effective. The adoption of targeted policies, however, follows a faster track and depends more on political...
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