Exporting Democratic Practices: Evidence from a Village Governance Intervention in Eastern Congo

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

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“…MPs tend to have limited tenure in office in Africa (Mattes & Mozaffar, 2011). The available evidence suggests local chiefs often have strong social and economic connections to their communities (Baldwin & Mvukiyehe, 2015; Humphreys, de la Sierra, & van der Windt, 2014). Although caution is always necessary in extrapolating too much from any particular case, the positions of MPs and chiefs in Zambia appear fairly representative of sub-Saharan Africa in this sense.…”

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Elected MPs, Traditional Chiefs, and Local Public Goods: Evidence on the Role of Leaders in Co-Production From Rural Zambia

Baldwin

2018

Comparative Political Studies

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What types of leaders are effective in organizing public goods that require community contributions? In many settings, both citizens and state agencies provide financing, labor, and oversight of local projects. This article analyzes the effects of elected Members of Parliament (MPs) and hereditary chiefs in facilitating co-produced public goods in Zambia. MPs have electoral motivations to provide public goods but may not be well-positioned to organize community contributions. Chiefs lack electoral incentives but typically have long time horizons and local social connections. I analyze the effects of both types of leaders on the provision of co-produced public goods through a natural experiment. I take advantage of lapses in leadership following the deaths of leaders in office to show that chiefs have a significant effect on co-produced public goods but MPs do not. Auxiliary analysis suggests that chiefs’ effect on community contributions depends on the length of their time horizons.

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Elected MPs, Traditional Chiefs, and Local Public Goods: Evidence on the Role of Leaders in Co-Production From Rural Zambia

Baldwin

2018

Comparative Political Studies

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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?

Windt

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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“…The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative has collected several survey waves on individual-level perceptions on conflict and justice. Finally, several academic researchers have either collected survey data themselves or cooperated with agencies to accompany impact evaluations (Humphreys, de la Sierra & Van der Windt, 2015).…”

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Survey participation effects in conflict research

Juan¹,

Koos

2021

Journal of Peace Research

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Do survey participants in conflict zones respond differently if they have been interviewed before? Academic and policy interest in postwar political opinion has increased tremendously. One unexpected consequence of this surge of survey research is a growing probability that individuals will be interviewed multiple times. However, if participating in one survey causes respondents to change their attitudes or behavior, their subsequent survey responses may be biased in comparison to the rest of the sample population. Our article aims to investigate such ‘survey participation effects’ in conflict contexts. We draw on original survey data collected in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In our representative sample, 18% of respondents report that they have been interviewed before. Multivariate analyses demonstrate that their stated attitudes on social relations, political institutions, gender norms, and wartime victimization differ substantively from the responses of first-time interviewees. Moreover, our analyses indicate that experienced respondents have specific response styles – in particular, a tendency to support extreme response options. While substantive bias in multivariate analyses seems to be rather rare, our findings indicate that researchers should be aware of the footprints of data collection efforts in areas frequently targeted by household and opinion surveys.

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Exporting Democratic Practices: Evidence from a Village Governance Intervention in Eastern Congo

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Elected MPs, Traditional Chiefs, and Local Public Goods: Evidence on the Role of Leaders in Co-Production From Rural Zambia

Elected MPs, Traditional Chiefs, and Local Public Goods: Evidence on the Role of Leaders in Co-Production From Rural Zambia

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

Survey participation effects in conflict research

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