Recall Elections: A Tool of Accountability? Evidence from Peru
نویسندگان
چکیده
I examine the role of recall elections in Peruvian municipalities to evaluate whether they are used as a tool increase political accountability. test theoretical assumptions elite mobil...
منابع مشابه
Disentangling Accountability and Competence in Elections: Evidence from U.S. Term Limits
We exploit variation in U.S. gubernatorial term limits across states and time to empirically estimate two separate effects of elections on government performance. Holding tenure in office constant, differences in performance by reelectioneligible and term-limited incumbents identify an accountability effect: reelection-eligible governors have greater incentives to exert costly effort on behalf ...
متن کاملReputation and Accountability in Repeated Elections∗
This paper studies a model of infinitely repeated elections in which voters attempt simultaneously to select competent politicians and to provide them with incentives to exert costly effort. Voters are unable to incentivize effort if they base their reelection decisions only on incumbent reputation. However, equilibria in which voters use reputation-dependent performance cutoffs (RDC) to make r...
متن کاملAre Voters Rational? Evidence from Gubernatorial Elections
Standard agency theory suggests that rational voters will vote to re-elect politicians who deliver favorable outcomes. A second implication is that rational voters will not support a politician because of good outcomes unrelated to the politician’s actions. Specifically, rational voters should try to filter signal from noise, both in order to avoid electing incompetent, but lucky politicians, a...
متن کاملEntrepreneurship in Peru: Evidence from Panel Data
In this paper, I studied occupational choice and financial deepening among households inCote d’Ivoire, particularly in the context of the relationship between wealth and education.My study is based on the occupational choice model established by Lloyd-Ellis and Bernhardt(2000) (hereafter LEB) and the financial deepening model of Greenwood and Jovanovic (1990)(hereafter GJ).I...
متن کاملDecentralization, Accountability and the 2007 MPs Elections in Kenya
The Kenyan Constituency Development Fund (CDF) aims to alleviate poverty by allocating resources to constituencies which MPs and residents decide how to spend. In this paper we assess whether MPs’ re-election chances were affected by their management of the CDF. For this purpose we analyse the type of projects implemented by the CDF and residents’ opinion about their MP and the CDF. We find tha...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Desarrollo y Sociedad
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0120-3584']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13043/dys.87.3