Dividing the National Cake: Bureaucratic Embeddedness, and Inequality in Local Public Goods Delivery

• In Event: JSS 11
  In JSS Session: Political Consequences of Inequality

Brief Overview

I argue that bureaucrats have a characteristic- embeddedness that can explain some of the variation in public goods delivery in developing countries. I test my expectation in the context of the Nigerian Civil Service.

Author

• Ada Johnson-Kanu, University of California, Merced