The Social Bureaucrat: How Ethnic and Political Geography Affect Bureaucratic Collaboration and State Capacity

• In Event: Racial Discrimination and Geography in Local Politics

Brief Overview

This paper argues that ethnic and political geography can reduce bureaucratic collaboration in local services by impairing the informal social connections of bureaucrats. It tests this theory using data on over 30k villages and 80k schools in Turkey.

Author

• Tugba Bozcaga, Massachusetts Institute of Technology