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Verfasst von:Casey, Katherine
Titel:Crossing Party Lines: The Effects of Information on Redistributive Politics
Verlagsort:United States
Verlag:American Economic Association
Jahr:2015
Fussnoten:ObjectType-Article-1 ; ObjectType-Feature-2 ; SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ; content type line 23
Inhalt:Many lament that weak accountability and poor governance impede economic development in Africa. Politicians rely on ethnic allegiances that deliver the vote irrespective of performance, dampening electoral incentives. Giving voters information about candidate competence counters ethnic loyalty and strengthens accountability. I extend a canonical electoral model to show how information provision flows through voter behavior and ultimately impacts the distribution of political spending. I test the theory on data from Sierra Leone using decentralization and differential radio coverage to identify information's effects. Estimates suggest that information increases voting across ethnic-party lines and induces a more equitable allocation of campaign spending.
ISSN:0002-8282
Titel Quelle:The American economic review
Jahr Quelle:2015
Band/Heft Quelle:105, 8, S. 2410-2448
DOI:doi:10.1257/aer.20130397
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 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20130397
Sprache:English
Sach-SW:Accountability
 Campaign expenditures
 Candidates
 Decentralization
 Economic development
 Election results
 Estimation bias
 Jurisdiction
 Local elections
 Loyalty
 Minority & ethnic groups
 National politics
 Partisanship
 Patronage
 Political campaigns
 Political candidates
 Political economy
 Political parties
 Politicians
 Politics
 Radio
 Radios
 Voter behavior
 Voters
 Voting
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