The Geography of Accountability
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wibbels, Erik | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schultz, Anna Elisabeth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-16T17:27:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-04-26T08:17:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.department | Political Science | |
| dc.description.abstract | How does geographic location affect citizens' abilities to hold leaders responsible? This dissertation addresses this question in three papers in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. In the first, it investigates the relationship between traditional governance and vote buying. In the second, it investigates the role of distance to sub-national capitals in local governments' responsiveness to citizens' needs. In the third, it examines how voter responsiveness declines in distance from national capitals across sixteen african countries. What emerges is a geographically-nuanced representation of the impediments to government responsiveness. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | ||
| dc.subject | Political science | |
| dc.title | The Geography of Accountability | |
| dc.type | Dissertation | |
| duke.embargo.months | 23 |
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