Identity and Red Tape: The Political Economy of Politician-Bureaucrat Cooperation in India

• In Event: Emerging Research on Bureaucracy and Politics in Asia

Brief Overview

his paper examines how identity-based mobilization in a region and shared caste groups between bureaucrats and politicians changes the speed at which bureaucrats implement pork-barrel projects.

Authors

• Rikhil Ranjit Bhavnani, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Alexander Lee, University of Rochester

• Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Stanford University