State Representation and Service Delivery in Sierra Leone

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Brief Overview

We examine the relationship between representation in the formal state and service delivery in Sierra Leone's post-war democracy leveraging an original dataset on the hometowns of state appointees.

Authors

• Avi Ahuja, New York University

• James Robinson, The University of Chicago

• Andrew Thomas Lavali, Institute for Governance Reform