Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country

Fang, Hanming; Hou, Linke; Liu, Mingxing; Xu, Lixin Colin; Zhang, Pengfei

doi:10.1016/j.jce.2022.10.002

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“…According to Mitchell (1982), adequate accountability improves state performance and exacerbates economic growth. Local accountability can contribute to more stable economic growth under authoritarian leadership because local government authorities are held more responsible and resources are distributed more effectively (Fang, Hou, Liu, Xu, & Zhang, 2023).The findings of numerous studies indicate a beneficial relationship between regulatory quality and economic expansion. A high level of regulatory quality makes certain that resources can operate under a set of fair regulations that are in line with the objectives of socioeconomic development (Roy, 2020).…”

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Governance and Economic Growth in Afghanistan during the Era of US presence

GHAFOORI,

Meng

2023

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Over the course of its 20-year occupation, was the USA successful in establishing a democratic state in Afghanistan that could improve the quality of governance and boost economic growth? The 20-year USA presence in Afghanistan is examined in this paper in terms of how governance affected economic growth. Along with governance indicators, the effects of foreign aid and the labor force as control variables have also been examined on economic growth. To evaluate the equilibrium between research variables, the ARDL-ECM model has been utilized. The result demonstrates that, in the era of US presence, none of the six world governance indicators over the long term have had a significantly positive impact on economic growth. In the long run, the control of corruption has a negative impact, and in the short run, effective government significantly has a positive impact on economic growth during the investigation period. According to our findings, governance indicators have a much smaller impact on economic growth than population size and foreign aid in both short- and long-run equilibrium. Overall, there was a substantial reliance on human resources and international assistance for economic expansion in the era of democracy. The evidence shows that the association between economic growth and governance was found to be very poor, and the administration in Afghanistan had not been able to stimulate economic growth throughout the US presence. JEL classification: H1, O100

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Governance and Economic Growth in Afghanistan during the Era of US presence

GHAFOORI,

Meng

2023

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“…large new panel dataset to document changes in village political economy over 40 years for over 200 representative Chinese villages. 4 The Village Democracy Survey (VDS) records village administrative data and includes information about the timing of elections, policies, elected leaders and their de facto power. These are the only existing data that document the history of village elections, the characteristics of village government officials and their power for a nationally representative panel of villages going back to the early reform era.…”

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The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China

Martínez-Bravo

Miquel

Qian

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American Economic Review

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We posit that autocrats introduce local elections when their bureaucratic capacity is low. Local elections exploit citizens’ informational advantage in keeping local officials accountable, but they also weaken vertical control. As bureaucratic capacity increases, the autocrat limits the role of elected bodies to regain vertical control. We argue that these insights can explain the introduction of village elections in rural China and the subsequent erosion of village autonomy years later. We construct a novel dataset to document political reforms, policy outcomes, and de facto power for almost four decades. We find that the introduction of elections improves popular policies and weakens unpopular ones. Increases in regional government resources lead to loss of village autonomy, but less so in remote villages. These patterns are consistent with an organizational view of local elections within autocracies. (JEL D72, D73, D83, O17, O18, P25, P26)

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Social capability and long-term sustained growth

Gao,

2023

Economic Analysis and Policy

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Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

Governance and Economic Growth in Afghanistan during the Era of US presence

Governance and Economic Growth in Afghanistan during the Era of US presence

The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China

Social capability and long-term sustained growth

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