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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spelling	okr-10986-163492021-04-23T14:03:28Z Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India Besley, Timothy Pande, Rohini Rao, Vijayendra 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 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. Our data on village councils in South India show that, relative to other citizens, elected councillors are more likely to be selected as beneficiaries of a large transfer program. The chief councillor's village also obtains more public goods, relative to other villages. These findings can be interpreted using a simple model of the logic of political incentives in the context that we study. 2013-12-04T17:04:36Z 2013-12-04T17:04:36Z 2012-06-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16349 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press for the World Bank Journal Article South Asia India
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description	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. Our data on village councils in South India show that, relative to other citizens, elected councillors are more likely to be selected as beneficiaries of a large transfer program. The chief councillor's village also obtains more public goods, relative to other villages. These findings can be interpreted using a simple model of the logic of political incentives in the context that we study.
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author	Besley, Timothy Pande, Rohini Rao, Vijayendra
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title	Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India
title_short	Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India
title_full	Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India
title_fullStr	Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India
title_full_unstemmed	Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India
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Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India

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