Politics and the geographic allocation of public funds in a semi-democracy: The case of Ghana, 1996-2004.

Konferenzbeitrag

The 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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2011 ; No. 6

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa ; Public Facility Location Analysis; Public Investment and Capital Stock
• Thema: Public goods ; Elections ; Politics ; Ghana

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): André, Pierre ; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (wo): Kiel und Hamburg
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/48292
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ