Political Competition and the Impact of Local Governance on Pro-Poor Programs

Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

Chapter 11 in Community, Market and State in Development, 2010, pp 172-186 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Yujiro Hayami has been a leader in village studies of institutions and community governance in Asia (Hayami, 1999 and 2001). In the context of community governmence, he has argued elegantly that communities play a central role in making local governments accountable and effectively implementing development programs, such as the distribution of agricultural inputs. One of the means for communities to play an important role in local governance in a democratic country is through voting in local government elections. The interesting question in this context is about the prospect of capture of local governments by rural elites. This chapter is in the Hayami tradition, and focuses on how political competition influences the effectiveness of pro-poor programs carried out by local village governments. Our data are primarily from village surveys in nearly 90 villages in West Bengal, India.

Keywords: Political Competition; Land Reform; Local Governance; Operational Land; Electoral Competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230295018_11

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