IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-29501-8_11.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

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

In: Community, Market and State in Development

Author

Listed:
  • Pranab Bardhan
  • Dilip Mookherjee

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Pranab Bardhan & Dilip Mookherjee, 2010. "Political Competition and the Impact of Local Governance on Pro-Poor Programs," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Keijiro Otsuka & Kaliappa Kalirajan (ed.), Community, Market and State in Development, chapter 11, pages 172-186, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29501-8_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230295018_11
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29501-8_11. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.