The political economy of public goods: Some evidence from India
The political economy of public goods: Some evidence from India
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.04.005
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发表时间：
2007-03-01
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5
通讯作者：
Somanathan, Rohini
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作者：
Banerjee, Abhijit;Somanathan, Rohini
我们感兴趣的是中央集权国家如何分配公共产品。我们使用印度农村议会选区的公共产品和社会结构数据，以了解这些产品在20世纪70年代和80年代的分配情况。这一时期的国家政策和政治议程强调普及基本设施，并为迅速扩大农村基础设施提供资金。我们在其中许多设施中发现了相当大的均等化的证据，这或许反映了这些承诺的重要性。在历史上处于不利地位的社会群体中，那些在政治上动员自己的群体相对于其他群体获得了好处。在最近关于公共产品的经验文献中强调的社会异质性的衡量是相关的，但在其重要性上并不是压倒性的。(C)2006爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
We are interested in how public goods get allocated by a centralized state. We use data on public goods and social structure from parliamentary constituencies in rural India to understand the allocation of these goods over the 1970s and 1980s. National policies and political agendas during this period emphasized universal access to basic amenities and financed a rapid expansion in rural infrastructure. We find evidence of considerable equalization in many of these facilities, reflecting perhaps the importance of these commitments. Among the historically disadvantaged social groups, those that mobilized themselves politically gained relative to the others. Measures of social heterogeneity that have been emphasized in the recent empirical literature on public goods are relevant but not overwhelming in their importance. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.