TY - JOUR
T1 - Jati, local public goods and village governance private actions and public outcomes
AU - Jha, Raghbendra
AU - Nagarajan, Hari K.
AU - Tagat, Anirudh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/12/14
Y1 - 2019/12/14
N2 - Whether voting along narrow parochial lines in socially and ethnically fragmented societies has measurable gains is explored. Using data from rural India, it is established that identity-based voting, driven by membership in social and informal networks, will lead to enhanced participation in welfare programmes, which in turn leads to increased consumption growth. Further, reducing agency costs does not necessarily remove the need for identity-based voting, and such voting behaviour is a means for engaging in the capture of public and private benefits by these groups.
AB - Whether voting along narrow parochial lines in socially and ethnically fragmented societies has measurable gains is explored. Using data from rural India, it is established that identity-based voting, driven by membership in social and informal networks, will lead to enhanced participation in welfare programmes, which in turn leads to increased consumption growth. Further, reducing agency costs does not necessarily remove the need for identity-based voting, and such voting behaviour is a means for engaging in the capture of public and private benefits by these groups.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078080951&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
SN - 0012-9976
VL - 54
SP - 43
EP - 50
JO - Economic and Political Weekly
JF - Economic and Political Weekly
IS - 49
ER -