Manipulating Leviathan: Public Service Delivery, Corruption, and Bureaucratic Co-optation in Ghana

• In Event: The Bureaucratic Politics of Service delivery: Evidence from Ghana, India, Argentina, China and Brazil

Brief Overview

How, why and in which locations do politicians manipulate public procurement to extract resources for the party? I combine qualitative, observational, and experimental data from local governments in Ghana to answer these questions.

Author

• Sarah A Brierley, London School of Economics and Political Science