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Participatory Accountability and Collective Action: Experimental Evidence from Albania
Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman; Serra, Danila - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2013
It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put … if accountability is to be achieved. Thus, citizens face a social dilemma – participate in holding public servants to … those who do. If this characterization of accountability is valid, we would expect more cooperatively inclined citizens to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011154543
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Management and Motivation in Ugandan Primary Schools: An impact evaluation report
Barr, Abigail; Bategeka, Lawrence; Guloba, Madina; … - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2012
education in Uganda has been proven to suffer, in great part, from the “weakness of accountability mechanisms between school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693213
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Conflict of interest as a barrier to local accountability
Barr, Abigail; Zeitlin, Andrew - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
Using a specially designed lab-type experiment conducted in the field, we compare the willingness of head teachers, centrally appointed public servants, and community representatives to hold Ugandan primary school teachers to account.  We find no difference in the willingness of centrally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004348
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Participatory accountability and collective action: Experimental evidence from Albania
Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman; Serra, Danila - In: European Economic Review 68 (2014) C, pp. 250-269
It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put … if accountability is to be achieved. Thus, citizens face a social dilemma — participate in holding public servants to … those who do. If this characterization of accountability is valid, we would expect more cooperatively inclined citizens to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048572
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Conflict of interest as a barrier to local accountability
Barr, Abigail; Zeitlin, Andrew - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2011
Using a specially designed lab-type experiment conducted in the field, we compare the willingness of head teachers, centrally appointed public servants, and community representatives to hold Ugandan primary school teachers to account. We find no difference in the willingness of centrally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644805
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Participatory accountability and collective action: Experimental evidence from Albania
Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman; Serra, Danila - 2013
It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put … if accountability is to be achieved. Thus, citizens face a social dilemma - participate in holding public servants to … those who do. If this characterization of accountability is valid, we would expect more cooperatively inclined citizens to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392435
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Participatory accountability and collective action : experimental evidence from Albania
Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman; Serra, Danila - In: European economic review : EER 68 (2014), pp. 250-269
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423555
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Participatory accountability and collective action : experimental evidence from Albania
Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman; Serra, Danila - 2013
It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put … if accountability is to be achieved. Thus, citizens face a social dilemma - participate in holding public servants to … those who do. If this characterization of accountability is valid, we would expect more cooperatively inclined citizens to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187861