Luo, Renfu; Zhang, Linxiu; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - In: Journal of Development Studies 46 (2010) 4, pp. 662-684
A key issue in political economy concerns the accountability that governance structures impose on public officials and how elections and representative democracy influence the allocation of public resources. In this paper we utilise a unique set of survey data set from nearly 2450 randomly...