Fixers, Patronage, ‘Fixing’, and Local Governance in Karnataka

On Local Fixing

In this paper we look at the difficulty of fixing solutions of classic network problems. We study local changes in graphs (edge resp. node insertion resp. deletion), and network problems (e.g. maximal independent set, minimum vertex cover, spanning trees, shortest paths). A change/problem combination is locally fixable if an existing solution of a problem can be fixed in constant time in case o...

Decentralisation and Local Governance

The Effects of Political Reservations for Women on Local Governance and Rural Service Provision Survey Evidence from Karnataka

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Characterizing Cartesian fixers and multipliers

Let G H denote the Cartesian product of the graphs G and H. In 2004, Hartnell and Rall [On dominating the Cartesian product of a graph and K2, Discuss. Math. Graph Theory 24(3) (2004), 389–402] characterized prism fixers, i.e., graphs G for which γ(G K2) = γ(G), and noted that γ(G Kn) ≥ min{|V (G)|, γ(G)+n−2}. We call a graph G a consistent fixer if γ(G Kn) = γ(G)+n−2 for each n such that 2 ≤ n...

Rent-seeking and Gender in Local Governance

The paper examines the relationship between corruption and gender in institutions of local government in India, using a Logit model. Recent debates about women’s participation in electoral politics suggest that the presence of more women in government will engender public policy, and also tends to reduce corruption. The evidence we examined indicates that gender is not a significant factor in e...