| 来源类型 | Discussion Paper
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| 规范类型 | 工作论文
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| ISBN | 978-3-88985-652-4
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| Who gets the schools? Political targeting of economic and social infrastructure provision in Zambia |
| Leiderer, Stefan
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| 发表日期 | 2014
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| 出版年 | 2014
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| 概述 | This paper demonstrates the usability of household data to study political economy features of public finances in developing countries. Taking Zambia as an example, it finds strong and robust evidence for political targeting of public infrastructure provision in line with the core-voter theorem. |
| 摘要 | This paper contributes to a growing body of literature on the political economy of public finance in developing countries. Its main methodological interest is to demonstrate the usability of household-level data to study political economy features of public finances in developing countries that commonly escape empirical scrutiny due to poor data availability. The empirical interest is in testing whether there is evidence for or against either of two competing models of political targeting of public sector spending: the swing-voter versus the core-voter model, the proposition being that in “typical” neo-patrimonial regimes in sub-Saharan Africa, the corevoter model should prevail. I use data from Zambia’s Living Conditions Monitoring Survey (LCMS) to investigate whether there is evidence that the ruling party in Zambia followed political motives in targeting public infrastructure spending at the turn of the millennium, and whether there is evidence that such targeting falls in line with either of these two models. I find strong and robust evidence for the core-voter model applying to social infrastructure provision in Zambia. The findings suggest that it is primarily the construction of new health and education facilities that is affected by political targeting, whereas there is no strong evidence for such targeting for the improvement and rehabilitation of existing infrastructure. For roads construction or rehabilitation, I find no evidence of similar political targeting. |
| URL | https://www.die-gdi.de/en/discussion-paper/article/who-gets-the-schools-political-targeting-of-economic-and-social-infrastructure-provision-in-zambia/
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| 来源智库 | German Development Institute (Germany)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/499891
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Leiderer, Stefan. Who gets the schools? Political targeting of economic and social infrastructure provision in Zambia. 2014.
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