Attribution and Accountability: Voting for Roads in Ghana
Attribution and Accountability: Voting for Roads in Ghana
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归属和责任：为加纳的道路投票
DOI：
10.1017/s0043887115000209
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
R. Harding
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作者：
R. Harding
非洲的选民是否利用选举来要求政府对其执政表现负责？在信息有限和国家能力薄弱的情况下，公民可能难以将公益物和服务的提供归因于政治行动。因此，选民往往没有多少关于政府业绩的信息，无法以此作为他们获得选举支持的条件。这种情况往往以庇护主义或种族政治为特征，人们普遍认为，非洲的选举不过是腐败或种族动员的竞争。作者使用了一套包含选举结果和加纳各地道路状况详细信息的原始小组数据，提供了强有力的证据，证明当公共产品可归因于政治行动时，如加纳的道路，选举支助会受到提供该产品的影响。作者还使用了各种教育投入的数据来检验投票只取决于可归因结果的说法。
Do voters in Africa use elections to hold governments accountable for their performance in office? In contexts of limited information and weak state capacity, it can be difficult for citizens to attribute the provision of public goods and services to political action. As a result, voters often have little information about government performance on which to condition their electoral support. Such contexts are frequently characterized by clientelism or ethnic politics, and there is a widespread impression that African elections are little more than contests in corruption or ethnic mobilization. Using an original panel data set containing electoral returns and detailed information on road conditions throughout Ghana, the author provides robust evidence that when a public good can be attributed to political action, as is the case with roads in Ghana, electoral support is affected by the provision of that good. The author also uses data on a variety of educational inputs to test the claim that votes are conditioned only on attributable outcomes.