Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
This article presents an experiment in which 49 Indonesian villages were randomly assigned to choose development projects through either representative-based meetings or direct election-based plebiscites. Plebiscites resulted in dramatically higher satisfaction among villagers, increased knowledge a...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2011-11-14T19:33:33Z.
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