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  1. Immunity
    Author: Reddy, Karthik; Schularick, Moritz; Skreta, Vasiliki
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  CESifo, München

    Legal provisions that protect politicians from arrest and prosecution exist throughout much of the modern democratic world. Why, and with what effects, do societies choose to place their politicians above the law? We examine the institution of... more

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    Legal provisions that protect politicians from arrest and prosecution exist throughout much of the modern democratic world. Why, and with what effects, do societies choose to place their politicians above the law? We examine the institution of immunity both theoretically and empirically. Our theoretical model demonstrates that immunity is a double-edged sword; while statutory immunity provisions protect honest politicians from politically-motivated charges, they may also incentivize corrupt behavior. Which effect dominates depends on the quality of the judicial system. In order to empirically analyze the effects of immunity provisions, we quantify the strength of immunity protection enjoyed by heads of government, ministers, and legislators in 73 democracies. We find empirical evidence that though stronger immunity protection is associated with greater corruption where the judicial system is independent, this relationship has more ambiguous effects where the legal system is weak and susceptible to politicization. These effects remain after controlling for standard determinants of corruption.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/89758
    RVK Categories: QB 910
    Series: Array ; 4445
    Subjects: accountability; corruption; immunity; interest groups
    Scope: Online-Ressource (35 S.), graph. Darst.
  2. Participatory accountability and collective action
    experimental evidence from Albania
    Author: Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman; Serra, Danila
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  CEDEX, Nottingham

    It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put institutions in place that allow citizens to hold public servants to account, but citizens must participate in those institutions if... more

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    It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put institutions in place that allow citizens to hold public servants to account, but citizens must participate in those institutions if accountability is to be achieved. Thus, citizens face a social dilemma - participate in holding public servants to account at a cost in terms of time and effort or free ride, i.e. do not participate, while benefiting from the efforts of those who do. If this characterization of accountability is valid, we would expect more cooperatively inclined citizens to participate in accountability institutions, while the less cooperatively inclined do not. We test the validity of this characterization by investigating the correlation between individual behavior in a simple public goods game and their participation in local and national accountability institutions in Albania. We study a nationally representative sample of 1800 adults with children in primary school. We find significant correlations between cooperativeness and participation in school accountability institutions and national elections, both at the individual level and the district level. These correlations are robust to the introduction of many controls in the analysis and, in the case of national elections, to the use of official election turn-out statistics in place of self-reported turn-out.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    hdl: 10419/100171
    Series: CeDEx discussion paper series ; 2013-08
    Subjects: accountability; participation; elections; collective action; public good game
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  3. Aid, accountability, and institution-building in Ethiopia
    a comparative analysis of donor practice
    Author: Abegaz, Berhanu
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  WIDER, Helsinki

    Forty billion dollars of official development assistance during 1991-2012 reduced Ethiopian absolute poverty while underwriting more efficient but exclusionary public institutions. This aid-institutions paradox reflects a strong interest-alignment... more

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    Forty billion dollars of official development assistance during 1991-2012 reduced Ethiopian absolute poverty while underwriting more efficient but exclusionary public institutions. This aid-institutions paradox reflects a strong interest-alignment between major donors pursuing geostrategic objectives and poverty reduction, and a ruling-party seeking total institutional capture, fully-owned development programmes, and a developmental state with legitimizing poverty reduction. Disagreement on democratization predictably produced lackluster progress. By prioritizing adequate space for fundamental non-state stakeholders, a coalition of major donors can and must institutionalize accountability by conditioning scaled-up aid at least with respect for human rights and the rule of law.

     
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    Series: Working paper / World Institute for Development Economics Research ; 2013/083
    Subjects: aid; accountability; institution-building; Ethiopia
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  4. Development through empowerment
    delivering effective public services ; a literature review
    Author: Xu, Guo
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines

    This paper reviews the channels through which empowerment may improve the efficiency and quality of public service delivery, particularly in developing Asia. Departing from a macro perspective, we focus and revisit microeconomic evidence for three... more

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    This paper reviews the channels through which empowerment may improve the efficiency and quality of public service delivery, particularly in developing Asia. Departing from a macro perspective, we focus and revisit microeconomic evidence for three broad measures aimed at empowering the poor: empowerment through voice, empowerment through exit, and empowerment through information.

     
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    hdl: 10419/128525
    hdl: 11540/4228
    Series: ADB economics working paper series ; 382
    Subjects: empowerment; public service delivery; accountability
    Scope: Online-Ressource (36 S.)