Ethnicity is not public service destiny: The political logic of service distribution in South Africa

John Porten, Inbok Rhee and Clark Gibson

No wp-2021-63, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Millions of South Africans in thousands of demonstrations have protested the unequal allocation of public services. Despite the African National Congress's promise to reduce the disparities generated by apartheid, the level of public services remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target their co-ethnics; other 'diversity deficit' literature hypothesizes that a high level of ethnic diversity undermines service provision from the start.

Keywords: Public service delivery; Ethnicity; Africa; Distribution; Development policy; South Africa; Public goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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