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Clientelism, public goods provision, and governance
Lo Bue, Maria C.; Sen, Kunal; Lindberg, Staffan I. - 2021
, increased political corruption, and weaker rule of law. We also find that the deleterious effects of political clientelism are …
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Inequality, institutions, and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
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Deterrence, peer effect, and legitimacy in anti-corruption policy-making : an experimental analysis
Boly, Amadou; Gillanders, Robert; Miettinen, Topi - 2016
Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568192
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A model to explain the impact of government revenue on the quality of governance and the SDGs
Hall, Stephen G.; O’Hare, Bernadette Ann-Marie - 2022
This paper empirically investigates the link between the level of government revenue per capita and six indicators of quality of governance in an unbalanced panel data set consisting of all countries in the world (217) using data from 1980 to 2020. It uses single-equation GMM techniques and a...
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Formalizing clientelism in Kenya : from Harambee to the Constituency Development Fund
Opalo, K. Ochieng’ - 2021
promises are achievable and therefore deemed credible. Using evidence from the Constituency Development Fund in Kenya, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650912
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Inclusion amid ethnic inequality : insights from Brazil's social protection system
Sugiyama, Natasha Borges - 2022
Policy frames in Brazil have long run up against conflicting visions and understandings about the causes and consequences of group-based inequality. This paper argues that a class-based lens has dominated the social protection framework. In recent years, political leaders have framed social...
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Horizontal inequality, status optimization, and interethnic marriage in a conflict-affected society
McDoom, Omar - 2016
Although several theories of interethnic conflict emphasize ties across group boundaries as conducive to ethnic coexistence, little is known about how such ties are formed. Given their integrative potential, I examine the establishment of cross-ethnic marital ties in a deeply divided society and...
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Inequality, ethnicity, and social cohesion
McDoom, Omar - 2017
How do changes in socio-economic inequality between ethnic groups affect interethnic ties in a divided society? I analyse the evolution of cross-ethnic marriages in a society affected by violence along ethnic boundaries and make three principal findings. First, as inequality between ethnic...
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Who trusts? : ethnicity, integration, and attitudes toward elected officials in urban Nigeria
LeBas, Adrienne - 2017
In the developing world, clientelism is common. In Africa, public office is often used to redistribute resources to ethnically defined constituencies, and this form of clientelistic exchange is a key determinant of vote choice. Does clientelistic exchange shape trust in elected officials as...
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The education backlash : how assimilative primary school education affects insurgency in areas of ethnic conflict
Bozçağa, Tuğba; Cansunar, Asli - 2023
Education is a public service, assumed to be highly valued by citizens, allowing politicians to use it to reward their co-ethnics. However, nation-states have also used education to create loyal citizens, leaving politicians in times of heightened threat of ethnic mobilization. This study...
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