Decentralization, Accountability and the 2007 MPs Elections in Kenya

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero

No 2010-09, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: The Kenyan Constituency Development Fund (CDF) aims to alleviate poverty by allocating resources to constituencies which MPs and residents decide how to spend. In this paper we assess whether MPs’ re-election chances were affected by their management of the CDF. For this purpose we analyse the type of projects implemented by the CDF and residents’ opinion about their MP and the CDF. We find that MPs’ re-election chances were influenced by MPs’ ethnicity and by the way MPs allocated the CDF. MPs who run the most projects on education and the least on other projects such as health or water were less likely to be re-elected.

Keywords: Decentralization; Accountability; Elections; Africa; Kenya (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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