Exporting democratic practices: Evidence from a village governance intervention in Eastern Congo

Humphreys, Macartan; Sierra, Raúl Sánchez de la; Windt, Peter van der

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.03.011

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“…In recent years, for example, programs that introduce community-level institutional innovations have become popular, with the intention to constrain traditional leadership and empower local populations. These programs are undertaken across the world: for example, Liberia (Fearon, Humphreys, & Weinstein, 2009), Afghanistan (Beath et al, 2013), Sierra Leone (Casey, Glennerster, & Miguel, 2012), Sudan (Avdeenko & Gilligan, 2015), and Congo (Humphreys, Sanchez de la Sierra, & van der Windt, 2018). Mansuri and Rao (2013) quote a figure of US$85 billion in World Bank spending in the past decade alone on these types of interventions.…”

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Citizen Attitudes Toward Traditional and State Authorities: Substitutes or Complements?

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Humphreys

Medina

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Comparative Political Studies

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. AbstractDo citizens view state and traditional authorities as substitutes or complements? Past work has been divided on this question. Some scholars point to competition between attitudes toward these entities, suggesting substitution, whereas others highlight positive correlations, suggesting complementarity. Addressing this question, however, is difficult, as it requires assessing the effects of exogenous changes in the latent valuation of one authority on an individual's support for another. We show that this quantity-a type of elasticity-cannot be inferred from correlations between support for the two forms of authority. We employ a structural model to estimate this elasticity of substitution using data from 816 villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo and plausibly exogenous rainfall and conflict shocks. Despite prima facie evidence for substitution logics, our model's outcomes are consistent with complementarity; positive changes

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Citizen Attitudes Toward Traditional and State Authorities: Substitutes or Complements?

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“…The third approach is participatory development. Humphreys et al (2019) and Nielson et al (2019) describe that participatory development can utilize for village development. It is because the participants will encourage the participation of rural communities in economic and non-economic activities (including village institutions).…”

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Do Non-Economic Factors Effect Village Fund?

2020

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The Government has enacted Law Number 6/2014 concerning Villages. One policy included in that Law is the provision of Village Funds (Dana Desa) in which its implementation can be investigated based on non-economic aspects. For this reason, this study aims to analyze the impact of non-economic factors on Village Funds disbursed in 29 districts in Central Java Province. These factors include population and the Human Development Index (HDI). While using secondary data from 2015-2017, this research employs a method using panel data with the best model known as the Fixed Effects Model (FEM). The FEM estimation results show that the population has a significant impact, while HDI's impact is not significant. Besides, the ratio between Village Funds and the population has a significant impact on Village Funds. Thus, both the Central and the Regional Government, as well as the Village Heads, should consider the population in allocating Village Funds. The contribution of this study is that the Government should formulate an appropriate policy for Village Funds allocation by considering non-economic factors in each village.JEL Classification: O10, O23, E62How to Cite:Ratwianingsih, L., Cahyadin, M., & Sutomo. (2020). Do Non-Economic Factors Affect Village Funds?. Signifikan: Jurnal Ilmu Ekonomi, Vol. 9(1), 93-106. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/sjie.v9i1.14056.

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“…Yet, governments in Africa as elsewhere are under pressure to develop a sustainable tax base, secure food self-sufficiency, improve people's living standards and build up political legitimacy. To reach more peripheral areas, state bureaucracies often rely on development agencies to assist "under-developed" communities leap-frogging on growth trajectories (Humphreys et al, 2019;van der Windt et al, 2018). The goal of such development programs is to, i.a., increase tax income, food production, education and health outcomes.…”

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Democratization by Accident: Does Development Aid Change Local Hierarchies?

Koos¹

2020

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Governments of low-income countries often rely on development agencies to implement programs aiming at improving health, education and economic outcomes. Apart from these intended effects, development programs can have powerful unintended side-effects. In this study, we explore one such side-effect: democratization. Specifically, we assess whether a standard development intervention unintentionally changes local hierarchies to become more democratic.We propose two primary channels how development interventions affect social hierarchies. First, new political roles and committees challenge existing elites.Second, economic specialization brings people closer together and results in new interest groups. Both channels should, in theory, lead to more democratic locallevel decision-making. We assess these hypotheses in post-conflict Liberia using a cluster-randomized controlled trial. This pre-analysis plan lays out our empirical strategy to assess the program's effect on local democratization. 1 To explore the interplay of development and democratization, we cooperated with KfW Development Bank and the NGO WHH to evaluate their Reintegration and Recovery Program in South East Liberia (henceforth, RRP). RRP is a KfW-funded 16 million Euro program intended to foster sustainable socio-economic development and food and nutrition security in Liberia's South East. The program includes three key components, to which communities are randomly assigned: i) gender empowerment; ii)water, sanitation and hygiene; and iii) agricultural innovation. The specific program components are described below. Gender empowerment (RRP-Gender)The first arm of the program implements a gender empowerment program. The program is implemented by Medica Liberia in 15 villages. The goal of the program is to address sexualized & gender based violence through prevention and advocacy. To this end, Medica will set up institutionalized women support groups in beneficiary villages. The groups support women in employment related issues and provide a support network in case women are subjected to violence. Water, sanitation and hygiene (RRP-WASH)The second arm of the program implements a behavior change program. The program is implemented by WHH in 112 villages. The purpose of the program is to change respondents' behavior toward water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). Specific behaviors that are addressed in the program include nutrition during pregnancy, food handling, handwashing practices, cleanliness (to avoid rodents). Apart from behavioral change campaigns, this program arm also includes the rehabilitation of water pumps and the assignment of maintenance responsibilities to community members.3

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Exporting democratic practices: Evidence from a village governance intervention in Eastern Congo

Cited by 33 publications

References 59 publications

Citizen Attitudes Toward Traditional and State Authorities: Substitutes or Complements?

Citizen Attitudes Toward Traditional and State Authorities: Substitutes or Complements?

Do Non-Economic Factors Effect Village Fund?

Democratization by Accident: Does Development Aid Change Local Hierarchies?

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