Informal Housing and Active Citizenship in Development: Slums, Collective Efficacy, and Perceptions of the Government in Public Opinion in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

• In Event: Citizens, Society, and Informal Institutions

Brief Overview

This paper argues that slums, a pervasive urban phenomenon in development, can increase civic participation while lowering citizen expectation of the state, as citizens participate in collective goods rather than state-provided public goods.

Author

• Ying Gao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology