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dc.contributor.authorAndré, Pierreen
dc.contributor.authorMesplé-Somps, Sandrineen
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-15T14:20:28Z-
dc.date.available2011-07-15T14:20:28Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/48292-
dc.description.abstractThe body of literature on purely democratic countries can sometimes fail to explain the behavior of government in semi-democratic African countries. Empirical and theoretical political economic papers and that public funds target ruling party supporters and swing districts. Our results, however, suggest that the opposite was true of Ghana. We observe that pro-government districts received less public investment when the NDC was in power. We posit that this nding is partially driven by the government's will to curry favor with opposition politicians. Indeed, in addition to pursuing its electoral objectives, the government of an emerging democracy may fear political instability and keep the lid on potential unrest by bargaining with opposition leaders. Our analysis also shows that, when controlling for votes and other covariates (including wealth, urbanization and density), public goods allocation is not driven by ethnic group targeting either.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft |cKiel und Hamburgen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aProceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2011 |x6en
dc.subject.jelD72en
dc.subject.jelO55en
dc.subject.jelR53en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordPublic goodsen
dc.subject.keywordElectionsen
dc.subject.keywordPoliticsen
dc.subject.keywordGhanaen
dc.titlePolitics and the geographic allocation of public funds in a semi-democracy: The case of Ghana, 1996-2004.-
dc.typeConference Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn665571755en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:gdec11:6en

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