When Mountains Foretell Corruption: Socio-geographic Predictors of Public Goods Provision and Democratic Transition

• In Event: Targeting Voters: Government Policy and Distributive Consequences

Brief Overview

I hypothesize that if public goods are too expensive 1) less public goods will be provided 2) democracy will be harder to attain and sustain. I use socio-geographic as exogenous proxies of the cost of constructing public infrastructure.

Author

• Etienne Ortega, University of California-Riverside