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The Politics of Power : The Political Economy of Rent-Seeking in Electric Utilities in the Philippines

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dc.contributor.authorMatsuda, Yasuhiko
dc.contributor.authorHasnain, Zahid
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-19T18:03:04Z
dc.date.available2012-03-19T18:03:04Z
dc.date.issued2011-06-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper takes advantage of unique intra-country variation in the Philippines power sector to examine under what conditions politicians have an incentive to "capture" an electric utility and use it for the purposes of rent-seeking. The authors hypothesize that the level of capture is determined by the incentives of, and the interactions between, local and national politicians, where the concepts of "local" and "national" are context specific. A local politician is defined as one whose electoral jurisdiction lies within the utility s catchment area; by contrast, a national politician is defined as one whose electoral jurisdiction includes two or more utility catchment areas. These jurisdictional differences imply different motivations for local and national politicians: because of "spillover" effects, local politicians have a greater incentive to use the utility for rent-seeking than a national politician as they capture only a portion of the political gains from utility performance improvements as some of the benefits of improved service will go to other electoral jurisdictions within the utility s catchment area. The authors posit that three variables impact the magnitude of these incentives of local and national politicians: (i) the local economic context, specifically the scale of rents that can be extracted from an electricity cooperative (ii) the degree of competitiveness of local politics; and (iii) the political salience of an electricity cooperative s catchment area for national politicians. The authors illustrate this framework through case studies of specific power utilities, and suggest some policy implications.en
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dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-5704
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/3472
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5704
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectACCOUNTABILITY
dc.subjectACCOUNTING
dc.subjectACTIVISM
dc.subjectALLOCATION
dc.subjectANARCHY
dc.subjectAUTONOMY
dc.subjectBIDDING
dc.subjectBUREAUCRACY
dc.subjectBUSINESSMEN
dc.subjectCAPABILITIES
dc.subjectCAPITALISM
dc.subjectCETERIS PARIBUS
dc.subjectCHECKS AND BALANCES
dc.subjectCIVIL SOCIETY
dc.subjectCOLLECTIVE ACTION
dc.subjectCOLLUSION
dc.subjectCOMPETITIVENESS
dc.subjectCOMPLAINT
dc.subjectCOMPLAINTS
dc.subjectCONFIDENCE
dc.subjectCONSTITUENCY
dc.subjectCONSTITUENTS
dc.subjectCONSUMER GROUPS
dc.subjectCONSUMERS
dc.subjectCORPORATION
dc.subjectCORRUPTION
dc.subjectCRIME
dc.subjectDEMOCRACY
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT POLICY
dc.subjectDICTATORSHIP
dc.subjectDISCRETION
dc.subjectDYNASTIES
dc.subjectECONOMIC RENTS
dc.subjectECONOMICS
dc.subjectECONOMIES OF SCALE
dc.subjectELECTIONS
dc.subjectETHIC
dc.subjectFACTION
dc.subjectFACTIONS
dc.subjectFRAUD
dc.subjectFREEDOM
dc.subjectGOVERNMENT INTERVENTION
dc.subjectGOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
dc.subjectINITIATIVE
dc.subjectINVESTIGATION
dc.subjectLEADERSHIP
dc.subjectLEGAL FRAMEWORK
dc.subjectLIABILITY
dc.subjectMARGINAL VALUE
dc.subjectMAYORS
dc.subjectMEDIA
dc.subjectMERGERS
dc.subjectMONOPOLY
dc.subjectMORAL HAZARD
dc.subjectNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS
dc.subjectPATRONAGE
dc.subjectPEACE
dc.subjectPENALTIES
dc.subjectPERSONAL GAIN
dc.subjectPOLITICAL ACTIVITIES
dc.subjectPOLITICAL BENEFITS
dc.subjectPOLITICAL CAMPAIGNS
dc.subjectPOLITICAL CONDITIONS
dc.subjectPOLITICAL CULTURE
dc.subjectPOLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subjectPOLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM
dc.subjectPOLITICAL FACTORS
dc.subjectPOLITICAL GROUPS
dc.subjectPOLITICAL INFLUENCE
dc.subjectPOLITICAL INTEREST
dc.subjectPOLITICAL INTERESTS
dc.subjectPOLITICAL INTERFERENCE
dc.subjectPOLITICAL MACHINE
dc.subjectPOLITICAL PARTIES
dc.subjectPOLITICAL PARTY
dc.subjectPOLITICAL POWER
dc.subjectPOLITICAL SCIENCE
dc.subjectPOLITICIAN
dc.subjectPOLITICIANS
dc.subjectPOLITICIZATION
dc.subjectPREFERENTIAL
dc.subjectPRIVATE SECTOR
dc.subjectPRIVATIZATION
dc.subjectPROCUREMENT
dc.subjectPROCUREMENTS
dc.subjectPROPERTY RIGHTS
dc.subjectPUBLIC GOOD
dc.subjectPUBLIC GOODS
dc.subjectPUBLIC SERVICES
dc.subjectRENT SEEKING
dc.subjectSAVINGS
dc.subjectSERVICE DELIVERY
dc.subjectSOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectSOCIAL STRUCTURE
dc.subjectSTATE POLICIES
dc.subjectTAKEOVER
dc.subjectTHEFT
dc.subjectTRANSACTION COSTS
dc.subjectTRANSPARENCY
dc.subjectVIOLENCE
dc.subjectVOTERS
dc.subjectVOTING
dc.subjectWEALTH
dc.titleThe Politics of Power : The Political Economy of Rent-Seeking in Electric Utilities in the Philippinesen
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okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.countryPhilippines
okr.region.geographicalSoutheast Asia
okr.region.geographicalAsia
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group (DECRG)
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