This book examines how African rulers have responded to the introduction of democratic electoral competition, and how this has resulted in rural development.
This book examines how African rulers have responded to the introduction of democratic electoral competition, and how this has resulted in rural development.
Robin Harding is Associate Professor of Government (Quantitative Methods) at the University of Oxford and the Gillian Peele Fellow in Politics at Lady Margaret Hall. He was previously a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College (2012-13) and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester (2013-15). He gained his PhD in Political Science from New York University in 2012. His research is concerned primarily with the political economy of development, with a focus on the impact of electoral competition on the provision and distribution of public goods and services. His research has been published in World Politics, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of African Economies, and Economics and Philosophy.
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1: Introduction 2: Elections and Rural Development 3: Urban Incumbent Hostility 4: Democracy's Rural Dividend 5: Microfoundations: Voting for Public Goods in Ghana 6: Mechanisms: Historical Evidence from Botswana 7: Conclusion
