Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India

Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India

What factors determine the nature of political opportunism in local government in South India? To answer this question, we study two types of policy decisions that have been delegated to local politicians—beneficiary selection for transfer programs and the allocation of within-village public goods....

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Main Authors: Besley, Timothy, Pande, Rohini, Rao, Vijayendra
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press for the World Bank 2013
Subjects:
beneficiaries
consultation
democracy
Democratization
Economic Policy
electoral process
figures
flexibility
Good Government
interviews
local government
Participatory Democracy
PRA
Reconstruction
Rural Development
self-interest
service delivery
village
village meetings
villages
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16349

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