Participatory Accountability and Collective Action : Evidence from Field Experiments in Albanian Schools
There is general agreement that the existence of participatory institutions is a necessary condition for accountability, especially where top-down institutions are malfunctioning or missing. In education, the evidence on the effectiveness of partic...
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ACADEMIC YEAR ACCOUNTABILITY ATTENDANCE RECORDS AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE NUMBER OF PUPILS BOARD OF DIRECTORS CANDIDATES CHURCHES CITIZENS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT CIVIL SOCIETY CLASSROOM COLLECTIVE ACTION COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CORRUPTION CURRICULA CURRICULUM DATA COLLECTION DEGREES DEMOCRACIES DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DEMOCRATIZATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION ECONOMICS EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION POLICIES EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL QUALITY ELECTION ELECTORAL SYSTEMS ENROLLMENT RATES ETHNIC DIVERSITY GOVERNANCE PROGRAM HEAD TEACHER HEADMASTERS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INFORMED SOCIETY INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTELLECTUALS INTERVENTIONS INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION LABOR MARKETS LEARNING LINGUISTIC DIFFERENCES LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS MINISTRY OF EDUCATION NUMBER OF PUPILS NUMBER OF SCHOOLS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PARENTAL PARTICIPATION PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS PARTICIPATION IN SCHOOLS PERSONALITY POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POOR PEOPLE PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER PRIMARY SCHOOLS PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC OFFICIALS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SERVICE PROVISION PUBLIC SERVICES QUALITY OF EDUCATION QUALITY SCHOOLS REPRESENTATIVES RESEARCHERS SCHOOL ACTIVITIES SCHOOL AUTONOMY SCHOOL BOARDS SCHOOL CONTROL SCHOOL DIRECTORS SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL GOVERNANCE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL SURVEY SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SELECTION OF TEXTBOOKS SMALLER NUMBER SOCIAL SERVICES STUDENT ASSESSMENT STUDENT OUTCOMES TEACHER TRAINING TEACHERS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TELEVISION TEXTBOOKS TRANSFER OF TEACHERS TRANSITION ECONOMIES URBAN SCHOOLS VOTER PARTICIPATION VOTER TURNOUT |
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ACADEMIC YEAR ACCOUNTABILITY ATTENDANCE RECORDS AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE NUMBER OF PUPILS BOARD OF DIRECTORS CANDIDATES CHURCHES CITIZENS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT CIVIL SOCIETY CLASSROOM COLLECTIVE ACTION COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CORRUPTION CURRICULA CURRICULUM DATA COLLECTION DEGREES DEMOCRACIES DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DEMOCRATIZATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION ECONOMICS EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION POLICIES EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL QUALITY ELECTION ELECTORAL SYSTEMS ENROLLMENT RATES ETHNIC DIVERSITY GOVERNANCE PROGRAM HEAD TEACHER HEADMASTERS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INFORMED SOCIETY INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTELLECTUALS INTERVENTIONS INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION LABOR MARKETS LEARNING LINGUISTIC DIFFERENCES LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS MINISTRY OF EDUCATION NUMBER OF PUPILS NUMBER OF SCHOOLS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PARENTAL PARTICIPATION PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS PARTICIPATION IN SCHOOLS PERSONALITY POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POOR PEOPLE PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER PRIMARY SCHOOLS PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC OFFICIALS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SERVICE PROVISION PUBLIC SERVICES QUALITY OF EDUCATION QUALITY SCHOOLS REPRESENTATIVES RESEARCHERS SCHOOL ACTIVITIES SCHOOL AUTONOMY SCHOOL BOARDS SCHOOL CONTROL SCHOOL DIRECTORS SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL GOVERNANCE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL SURVEY SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SELECTION OF TEXTBOOKS SMALLER NUMBER SOCIAL SERVICES STUDENT ASSESSMENT STUDENT OUTCOMES TEACHER TRAINING TEACHERS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TELEVISION TEXTBOOKS TRANSFER OF TEACHERS TRANSITION ECONOMIES URBAN SCHOOLS VOTER PARTICIPATION VOTER TURNOUT Barr, Abigail Packard, Truman Serra, Danila Participatory Accountability and Collective Action : Evidence from Field Experiments in Albanian Schools |
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Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 6027 |
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There is general agreement that the
existence of participatory institutions is a necessary
condition for accountability, especially where top-down
institutions are malfunctioning or missing. In education,
the evidence on the effectiveness of participatory
accountability is mixed. This paper argues that
participation is a social dilemma and therefore depends, at
least partly, on individuals' propensity to cooperate
with others for the common good. This being the case, the
mixed evidence could be owing to society-level
heterogeneities in individuals' willingness and ability
to overcome collective action problems. The authors
investigate whether individuals' propensity to
cooperate plays a role in parents' decisions to
participate in both a school accountability system -- a
"short route" to accountability -- and
parliamentary elections -- a "long route" to
accountability -- by combining survey data on 1,800
individuals' participation decisions with measures of
their willingness to contribute to a public good in the
context of a very simple, clearly defined laboratory
experiment. They conduct a study in a new democracy,
Albania, involving parents of children enrolled in primary
schools. The findings confirm that, both across individuals
within communities and across communities, the decision to
hold teachers and school directors accountable directly
through participation at the school level, and indirectly
through political participation correlates with
cooperativeness in a simple public goods game. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Barr, Abigail Packard, Truman Serra, Danila |
| author_facet |
Barr, Abigail Packard, Truman Serra, Danila |
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Barr, Abigail |
| title |
Participatory Accountability and
Collective Action : Evidence from Field Experiments in
Albanian Schools |
| title_short |
Participatory Accountability and
Collective Action : Evidence from Field Experiments in
Albanian Schools |
| title_full |
Participatory Accountability and
Collective Action : Evidence from Field Experiments in
Albanian Schools |
| title_fullStr |
Participatory Accountability and
Collective Action : Evidence from Field Experiments in
Albanian Schools |
| title_full_unstemmed |
Participatory Accountability and
Collective Action : Evidence from Field Experiments in
Albanian Schools |
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participatory accountability and
collective action : evidence from field experiments in
albanian schools |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16205503/participatory-accountability-collective-action-evidence-field-experiments-albanian-schools http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6029 |
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okr-10986-60292021-04-23T14:02:24Z Participatory Accountability and Collective Action : Evidence from Field Experiments in Albanian Schools Barr, Abigail Packard, Truman Serra, Danila ACADEMIC YEAR ACCOUNTABILITY ATTENDANCE RECORDS AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE NUMBER OF PUPILS BOARD OF DIRECTORS CANDIDATES CHURCHES CITIZENS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT CIVIL SOCIETY CLASSROOM COLLECTIVE ACTION COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CORRUPTION CURRICULA CURRICULUM DATA COLLECTION DEGREES DEMOCRACIES DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DEMOCRATIZATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION ECONOMICS EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION POLICIES EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EDUCATIONAL QUALITY ELECTION ELECTORAL SYSTEMS ENROLLMENT RATES ETHNIC DIVERSITY GOVERNANCE PROGRAM HEAD TEACHER HEADMASTERS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME INFORMED SOCIETY INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTELLECTUALS INTERVENTIONS INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION LABOR MARKETS LEARNING LINGUISTIC DIFFERENCES LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS MINISTRY OF EDUCATION NUMBER OF PUPILS NUMBER OF SCHOOLS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PARENTAL PARTICIPATION PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS PARTICIPATION IN SCHOOLS PERSONALITY POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POOR PEOPLE PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER PRIMARY SCHOOLS PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC OFFICIALS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SERVICE PROVISION PUBLIC SERVICES QUALITY OF EDUCATION QUALITY SCHOOLS REPRESENTATIVES RESEARCHERS SCHOOL ACTIVITIES SCHOOL AUTONOMY SCHOOL BOARDS SCHOOL CONTROL SCHOOL DIRECTORS SCHOOL ENROLLMENT SCHOOL GOVERNANCE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL SURVEY SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SELECTION OF TEXTBOOKS SMALLER NUMBER SOCIAL SERVICES STUDENT ASSESSMENT STUDENT OUTCOMES TEACHER TRAINING TEACHERS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TELEVISION TEXTBOOKS TRANSFER OF TEACHERS TRANSITION ECONOMIES URBAN SCHOOLS VOTER PARTICIPATION VOTER TURNOUT There is general agreement that the existence of participatory institutions is a necessary condition for accountability, especially where top-down institutions are malfunctioning or missing. In education, the evidence on the effectiveness of participatory accountability is mixed. This paper argues that participation is a social dilemma and therefore depends, at least partly, on individuals' propensity to cooperate with others for the common good. This being the case, the mixed evidence could be owing to society-level heterogeneities in individuals' willingness and ability to overcome collective action problems. The authors investigate whether individuals' propensity to cooperate plays a role in parents' decisions to participate in both a school accountability system -- a "short route" to accountability -- and parliamentary elections -- a "long route" to accountability -- by combining survey data on 1,800 individuals' participation decisions with measures of their willingness to contribute to a public good in the context of a very simple, clearly defined laboratory experiment. They conduct a study in a new democracy, Albania, involving parents of children enrolled in primary schools. The findings confirm that, both across individuals within communities and across communities, the decision to hold teachers and school directors accountable directly through participation at the school level, and indirectly through political participation correlates with cooperativeness in a simple public goods game. 2012-04-27T07:44:01Z 2012-04-27T07:44:01Z 2012-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16205503/participatory-accountability-collective-action-evidence-field-experiments-albanian-schools http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6029 English Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 6027 Impact Evaluation Series ; No. 55 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Europe and Central Asia Eastern Europe Albania |