Getting the Job Done: "Truncated" Public Goods and Trust in Local Government in Brazil

• In Event: JSS 16
  In JSS Session: Subnational Politics in Brazil and Mexico

Brief Overview

I introduce a theory on the effects of “truncated” public goods provision in developing, decentralized countries which I test with survey data and a novel data-set of federally-funded, locally-administered infrastructure projects in Brazil.

Author

• Beatriz Hampshire Barros, Princeton University