A commonly alleged pitfall of decentralization is that poverty, socio-economic inequality and lack of political competition allow local elites to capture local governments. This hypothesis is empirically examined using a longitudinal sample of 89 West Bengal villages concerning targeting of credit, agricultural input kits, employment programs and fiscal grants spanning the period 1978–98. Highe...

The rise of the internet has transformed information acquisition from a top-down process originating from media elites to a process of self-selection and searching. This raises a fundamental question about the relationship between information acquisition and opinion formation: do the processes occur in parallel or as part of a self-directed feedback loop? That is, do we look for information to ...

To extract revenue from its colony, the British implemented two major land tax systems and fundamentally altered the nature of existing property rights in India. In some regions, property rights and taxes were assigned to zamindars or landlords whereas in others they were assigned to ryotwars or cultivators. Because a few elites were able to accumulate significant economic and political power i...

Abstract Most national level referendums in Europe since 1793 are initiated either by political elites or citizens. It remains unclear why these two types of initiators call for referendums. This article aims to explain under what circumstances and citizens on domestic policies. The analysis is conducted at country using an original data set that covers 461 between 2019. tests the influence fou...

This article explores the particular challenges facing researchers interviewing political elites in a divided society. With evidence from interviews with former ministers in the Northern Ireland power-sharing government from 1999 to 2002, I demonstrate that researchers must consider a number of concerns relating to identity, bias and the polarised positions of politicians in a divided society. ...

The Covid-19 pandemic, which has accounted for remarkable casualties in Indonesia, did not seem to make political elites more empathetic. study aims reveal how the mythology of behind criticism Instagram accounts @GejayanMemanggil. To fulfill this goal, we employed Roland Barthes' semiotic analysis nine contents This revealed five major results. First, elite is represented as 'ancilus' oligarch...

OZP – Austrian Journal of Political Science I ISSN 2313-5433 I http://oezp.at/ Vol. 45, issue 3 I DOI 10.15203/ozp.1371.vol45iss3 Abstract Austrian political actors have improved the protection of outsiders by expanding the coverage of labour rights, social security, and active labour market policy spending in the past two decades. The article attributes these ‘solidaristic’ traits of Austrian ...