Gender and Public Goods Provision in Tamil Nadu's Village Governments

Gajwani, Kiran; Zhang, Xiaobo

doi:10.1093/wber/lhu001

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“…They find that reservation of Pradhan positions for women has no impact on drinking water, roads or benefit programmes delivered to female headed households, and actually made within village targeting for SC and ST households worse. This is in line with other work that finds women Pradhan reservation does not improve delivery of public goods, and further their reservation may have actually reduced the quality of schools and roads (Gajwani and Zhang 2015). Bardhan, Mookherjee and Torrado (2010) attribute their results to the fact that women are politically inexperienced.…”

Section: Empirical Evidence On Women's Reservationsupporting

confidence: 84%

Affirmative action policy in developing countries: Lessons learned and a way forward

Kaletski¹,

Prakash²

2016

WIDER Working Paper

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Section: Empirical Evidence On Women's Reservationsupporting

confidence: 84%

Affirmative action policy in developing countries: Lessons learned and a way forward

Kaletski¹,

Prakash²

2016

WIDER Working Paper

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“…However, they were more effective when they were more experienced. Consistent with this are the findings of Gajwani and Zhang (2008) who study 144 GPs in Tamil Nadu in 2005 and find women pradhan reservations did not improve delivery of any public good and lowered delivery for some (schools and roads), a result they interpret as a result of lack of IGDR 7,1 experience of women elected to reserved positions in knowledge of GP issues or in bargaining with higher levels of government. In a study of GPs in Andhra Pradesh, Afridi, Iversen and Sharan (2012) find women reservations were associated with significant increase in irregularities in social audits of NREGA programs.…”

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confidence: 57%

Accountability of local and state governments in India: an overview of recent research

Mookherjee

2014

Indian Growth and Development Review

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Purpose-This paper aims to provide an overview of recent research on accountability of local and state governments in India. Design/methodology/approach-The Downsian theory of electoral competition is used as a departure point for classifying different sources of government accountability failures. Subsequent sections deal with each of these sources in turn: limited voter participation and awareness; ideology, honesty and competence of political parties and electoral candidates; capture by elites; clientelism and vote-buying. Each section starts by explaining the relevant departure from the Downsian framework and then reviews available empirical evidence in the Indian context for each of these possible "distortions", besides effects of related policy interventions. The final section summarizes the lessons learnt, and the fresh questions that they raise. Findings-The paper describes a range of possible reasons that limit the effectiveness of elections as a mechanism inducing governments to be accountable to their citizens and reviews the evidence available from the Indian context concerning each of these. Originality/value-The contribution of the paper is to provide an overview and perspective of recent literature on political economy problems affecting performance of state and local governments in India.

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“…It concludes that a more complex approach of capture-cum-clientelism os more appropriate but may itself be is susceptible to being weakened by election of inexperienced women to reserved positions (Bardhan et al 2010). 6 In the Tamil Nadu study quoted earlier, some 80per cent indicated that their official decisions were to be influenced by their husbands, potentially pointing towards limited autonomy in decision-making (Gajwani and Zhang 2008). 7 While this includes three elections for most of the states, Bihar, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal held the earliest elections in 1992, before the amendment was adopted.…”

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Does Female Reservation Affect Long-Term Political Outcomes? Evidence from Rural India

Deininger

Nagarajan

et al. 2014

The Journal of Development Studies

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While studies explored impacts of political quotas for females at household level, differential effects on males and females and their evolution of time have received little attention. Using nationwide data from India spanning a 15-year period, we find that, while leader quality declines, gender quotas increase the level and quality of women's political participation, their ability to hold leaders to account, and their willingness to contribute to public goods. Key effects persist beyond the reserved period and impacts on females often materialise only with a lag.

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Gender and Public Goods Provision in Tamil Nadu's Village Governments

Cited by 15 publications

References 10 publications

Affirmative action policy in developing countries: Lessons learned and a way forward

Affirmative action policy in developing countries: Lessons learned and a way forward

Accountability of local and state governments in India: an overview of recent research

Does Female Reservation Affect Long-Term Political Outcomes? Evidence from Rural India

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