Democracy, visibility and public good provision.
We examine the role of visibility in influencing government resource allocation across a multiplicity of public goods. We show that a “visibility effect” distorts governmental resource allocation such that it helps explain why governments neglect provision of essential public goods, despite their co...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Economics Vol. 83; no. 2; pp. 506 - 530 |
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Elsevier Science
July 2007
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