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Sunshine Works : Comment on "The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: A Field Experiment on Legislative Transparency in an Authoritarian Assembly"

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dc.contributor.authorAnderson, James H.
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-25T21:08:56Z
dc.date.available2013-09-25T21:08:56Z
dc.date.issued2013-09
dc.description.abstractTransparency -- sunshine -- is often touted as a core element of the governance agenda, and one that is most important in environments with low transparency to begin with. In a provocative paper published in the American Political Science Review, Edmund Malesky, Paul Schuler, and Anh Tran present the results of a creative experiment in which they provided an additional spotlight on the activities of a random sample of delegates to Vietnam's National Assembly. They report that the effect of sunshine was negative, that delegates subject to this treatment curtailed their speech, and that those who spoke most critically were punished through the subsequent election and promotion processes. The present paper argues that Malesky, Schuler, and Tran's results, if interpreted correctly, actually predict a net positive effect of transparency. The differences in interpretation stem primarily from three sources: the interpretation of regression results for models with interaction terms, the interpretation of the variable for Internet penetration, and significant pre-treatment differences between treated and control delegates. For the context in which more than 80 percent of delegates operate, Malesky, Schuler, and Tran's results predict a positive but insignificant effect of transparency. In addition, Internet penetration, itself a measure of access to information, is positively associated with critical speech. The paper draws lessons for the design and interpretation of randomized experiments with interaction effects.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/09/18259607/sunshine-works-comment-adverse-effects-sunshine-field-experiment-legislative-transparency-authoritarian-assembly
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-6602
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/15831
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, Dc
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 6602
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectACCESS TO INFORMATION
dc.subjectADVERSE EFFECT
dc.subjectADVERSE EFFECTS
dc.subjectARTICLE
dc.subjectCODES
dc.subjectCODING
dc.subjectDECISION MAKING
dc.subjectDESCRIPTION
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT POLICY
dc.subjectDIMINISHING RETURNS
dc.subjectDOMAIN
dc.subjectECONOMICS RESEARCH
dc.subjectEQUATIONS
dc.subjectLOGIC
dc.subjectMEDIA
dc.subjectNEGATIVE EFFECTS
dc.subjectPOLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subjectPOSITIVE EFFECTS
dc.subjectPROBABILITY
dc.subjectPROGRAMMING
dc.subjectPUBLISHING
dc.subjectSITE
dc.subjectSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS
dc.subjectTRANSPARENCY
dc.subjectTREATMENT
dc.subjectVIS
dc.subjectWEB
dc.subjectWEB PAGES
dc.subjectWEBSITES
dc.titleSunshine Works : Comment on "The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: A Field Experiment on Legislative Transparency in an Authoritarian Assembly"en
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-6602
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okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.countryViet Nam
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