What accountability pressures do MPs in Africa face and how do they respond? Evidence from Ghana*

By Staffan I. Lindberg. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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• Segregation, Ethnic Favoritism, and the Strategic Targeting of Local Public Goods (2018, background): “As a result of this discretion, MPs have increasingly focused on delivering development projects (Cammack et al., 2007; Chinsinga, 2007, 2009), a trend that mirrors dynamics in other parts of Africa (Lindberg, 2010).”
• Attribution and Accountability: Voting for Roads in Ghana (2015, background): “22 lindberg 2005; lindberg 2010; young 2009a; bratton, bhavnani, and chen 2012. condition their electoral support. in contrast, if we find that changes to attributable goods have no impact on votes, we might infer that voters have chosen to ignore this information. the first task is to identify…”