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Ethnicity is not public service destiny : the political logic of service distribution in South Africa

Porten, John; Rhee, Inbok; Gibson, Clark C. - 2021

provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …

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Ethnicity is not public service destiny : the political logic of service distribution in South Africa

Porten, John; Rhee, Inbok; Gibson, Clark C. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 159 (2022), pp. 1-18

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Application of ICT in the co-production of social services

Kozak, Anna - In: Journal of economics & management 45 (2023) 1, pp. 441-467

Aim/purpose - The purpose of this article was to identify the information and communication technology (ICT) tools fostering the co-production of social services, acknowledging that the technological environment is an important contextual condition enhancing the development of co-production....

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Migration, Displacement and Refugees : An overview of The Role of Some Regional African Organizations

Alaowei Al-Bashir Lekan, Da-Cocodia - 2022

overview of migration, displacement and refugees shows that: Africa is known for its long history of migration within and … biases, being other causes of migration, displacement and refugees in Africa …

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Communication Technologies and the Public Service : Is It the Case of Citizens Inclusion in the Public Service Standard in Albania?

Musaraj, Arta; Malltezi, Argita - 2020

The Albanian challenges have been insistent not just for domestic researchers, academics, or even Albanian citizens; they pique a lot of people in different geographic positions, first of all, the European ones, because by a strong European drive Albanian progresses have been oriented. This...

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The Road to Power: Partisan Loyalty and the Centralized Provision of Local Infrastructure

Joanis, Marcelin - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009

This paper sets out a simple dynamic probabilistic voting model in which a government allocates a fixed budget across electoral districts that differ in their loyalty to the ruling party. The model predicts that the geographic pattern of spending depends on the way the government balances...

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In the Shadow of Violence : A New Perspective on Development

North, Douglass C. - 2015

This paper extends the North, Wallis, and Weingast (2009) framework for understanding the problems of development. Our approach distinguishes two development problems that are normally conflated. Most approaches to development focus on the second problem, namely, the transition of societies from...

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Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area : A Simple, Scalable, and Fast Computational Approach for Algorithmic Governance

Atkinson, Craig - 2022

-centred algorithmic governance. To bolster the resilience of Africa’s markets to social, ecological, and epidemiological disruption, such …

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Ethnofederalism and ethnic voting

Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021

We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...

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The Role of Institutions, Ethnic Fractionalization and Colonization and their Impact on Economic Growth and Development in Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Kenya

Hall, Sarah; Ollimo, Mabel - 2022

In this thesis, we will explore what led to the economic development and growth or lack of, in four African Countries with an imperial history. The countries chosen, have two different modern trajectories, the first of the countries; The Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya have a history of...

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