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Local Politicians and Public Goods Provision
Fri, August 30, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Omni, Governor's BoardroomSession Submission Type: Created Panel
Session Description
This panel consider how local politicians win and retain office, and how local features such as geography and social networks change how local governments perform.
Sub Unit
Individual Presentations
A Theory of Geography and Public Goods - Alice Z Xu, Harvard University
The Social Bureaucrat: How Local Ethnic Geography Affects Bureaucratic Efficiency - Tugba Bozcaga, MIT
Outsiders Against the Machine: Programmatic Reform in Subnational Democracies - Jonathan Phillips, University of São Paulo
What Motivates Politicians? Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in India - Kunal Sen, UNU-WIDER