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....
Main Authors: | Besley, Timothy, Pande, Rohini, Rao, Vijayendra |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Oxford University Press for the World Bank
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16349 |
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