When Local Elections Disappear: Electoral Incentives, Elite Capture, and Service Provision

• In Event: Institutions and State Capacity (Co-sponsored with Section 74: Subfield: Political Institutions)

Brief Overview

Leveraging the 2010 municipal reform in Taiwan, I employ a difference-in-difference design to show that the abolition of township elections decreases public goods provision by 40% of a within-unit standard deviation.

Author

• Hsu Yumin Wang, Emory University