Policing politicians: Citizen empowerment and political accountability in Uganda -Preliminary analysis (IGC Working Paper)
Policing politicians: Citizen empowerment and political accountability in Uganda -Preliminary analysis (IGC Working Paper)
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警务政客：乌干达的公民赋权和政治问责——初步分析（IGC 工作文件）
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2013
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J. Weinstein
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M. Humphreys;J. Weinstein
我们使用一个简单的模型的政治问责制，以获得一组假设链接到信息的政治行为，并提供了一个多层次的ELD实验，旨在测试这些假设的背景下，在乌干达的议会行为的结果。在2006年至2011年期间，我们与乌干达合作伙伴合作，开发了一个记分卡，其中包含乌干达议员（MP）的详细表现信息，告知随机选择的议员样本，这些信息将在其选区传播，并通过各种渠道向随机选民提供有关其MP表现的信息。调查实验的证据表明，乌干达选民强烈接受有关议员表现的新信息。然而，来自宣传活动的证据并没有提供证据表明，议员们对更高水平的透明度做出了更好的表现，或者他们的连任前景受到了威胁。一个看似合理的解释是，尽管我们所考虑的透明度类型在受控条件下可能很重要，但在一个长期的环境中，政治干预的范围足够大
We use a simple model of political accountability to derive a set of hypotheses linking access to information to political behavior and provide results from a multi-level eld experiment designed to test these hypotheses in the context of parliamentary behavior in Uganda. Between 2006 and 2011, working with a Ugandan partner, we developed a scorecard with detailed information on the performance of Ugandan Members of Parliament (MPs), informed a randomly selected sample of MPs that the information would be disseminated in their constituencies, and provided random samples of voters with information about their MP’s performance through a variety of channels. Evidence from survey experiments indicates that Ugandan voters are strongly receptive to new information about MP performance. Evidence from the dissemination campaigns, however, provides no evidence that MPs respond to a higher level of transparency with improved performance or that their prospects for reelection are threatened by it. A plausible explanation is that while the type of transparency we consider might matter under controlled conditions, in a eld settings the scope for political interference is large enough