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Do Smaller Local Governments Bring Citizens More? Evidence from Direct Elections in Indonesia

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dc.contributor.authorSinghania, Deepak
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-26T20:53:53Z
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dc.date.issued2022-06-08
dc.description.abstractDo smaller local governments provide more for their citizens, especially when they are also held accountable to their citizens This paper extends the empirical literature on the size of local governments by explicitly exploring one of the key influencing factors – direct local elections, a proxy for local accountability. Using an Indonesian panel of village-level outcomes data, the paper shows that a reduction in local government size (due to district splitting) increases public good provision but that this effect is restricted to districts that had direct local elections. It also provides suggestive evidence to show that increased revenue was channeled into developmental expenditures only in those split districts that faced direct elections. The identification strategy relies on a surprise local election announced while the number of local governments in Indonesia was increasing, which also abruptly imposed a moratorium on the process of splitting.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099453112112341507/IDU0b810db01000ba0418a0b7cd06eb379bef411
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41113
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41113
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectLOCAL GOVERNMENT
dc.subjectELECTIONS
dc.subjectGOVERNMENT SIZE
dc.subjectINDONESIA
dc.titleDo Smaller Local Governments Bring Citizens More? Evidence from Direct Elections in Indonesiaen
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okr.crossref.titleDo Smaller Local Governments Bring Citizens More? Evidence from Direct Elections in Indonesia
okr.date.disclosure2024-02-26
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okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.region.countryIndonesia
okr.topicGovernance::Local Government
okr.unitOff of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
okr.volume36 (3)
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