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...

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Published in:	Journal of Development Economics Vol. 83; no. 2; pp. 506 - 530
Main Authors:	Mani, Anandi, Mukand, Sharun
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier Science July 2007
Subjects:	Resource allocation > Mathematical models Mathematical models of consumption Public goods Democracy & economics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost