| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w19197
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 19197
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| Networks, Commitment, and Competence: Caste in Indian Local Politics |
| Kaivan Munshi; Mark Rosenzweig
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| 发表日期 | 2013-07-02
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| 出版年 | 2013
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper widens the scope of the emerging literature on economic networks by assessing the role of caste networks in Indian local politics. We test the hypothesis that these networks can discipline their members to overcome political commitment problems, enabling communities to select their most competent representatives, while at the same time ensuring that they honor the public goods preferences of their constituents. Using detailed data on local public goods at the street level and the characteristics of constituents and their elected representatives at the ward level over multiple terms, and exploiting the random system of reserving local council seats for caste groups, we find that caste discipline results in the election of representatives with superior observed characteristics and the provision of a significantly greater level of public goods. This improvement in political competence occurs without apparently diminishing leaders' responsiveness to the preferences of their constituents, although the constituency is narrowly defined by the sub-caste rather than the electorate as a whole. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
; Public Goods
; Development and Growth
; Development
; Growth and Productivity
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19197
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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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/576870
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Kaivan Munshi,Mark Rosenzweig. Networks, Commitment, and Competence: Caste in Indian Local Politics. 2013.
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