Capture and Governance at Local and National Levels

By P. Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee. 2000

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Equity, efficiency and inequality traps: A research agenda (2007, background): “23 See Baland and Platteau [11, 12] on inequality and management of the commons, and Bardhan and Mookherjee [14, 15] on the general question of capture and decentralization.”
THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC GOOD PROVISION: EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (2004, background): “g1 `(1) = μ 1+λT g 1 −`(1) = μλ 1+λT g2 `(2) = (1−μ) 1+λ T g 2 −`(2) = (1−μ)λ 1+λ T.”
Who Is at the Wheel When Communities Drive Development? Evidence from the Philippines (2009, background): “Bardhan and Mookherjee (2000) provide a theoretical framework to compare capture at the local and national levels.”
Pro-poor targeting and accountability of local governments in West Bengal (2006, background): “Specific political economy theories generate different predictions of how such weights are determined: examples of delite captureT mechanisms are provided in Grossman and Helpman (1996) and some of our earlier work (Bardhan and Mookherjee, 2000, 2003).”
''Capture'' of anti-poverty programs: An analysis of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program in India § (2009, background): “…inconclusive as studies suggest that the relative vulnerability of different levels of government to capture may very well be context specific (Bardhan and Mookherjee, 2000, 2005; Crook and Manor, 1998; Gaiha et al., 1998, 2000; Tendler, 1997).2 In a related literature Lanjouw and Ravallion…”
The Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Municipal Expenditures and Infant Mortality in Brazil (2014, background): “These views have been challenged by different authors, who stress the potential for local capture and exacerbation of pre-existing inequalities (Bardhan & Mookherjee, 2000; Mosse, 2001; Platteau & Abraham, 2002) and a loss of technical efficiency (Bardhan & Mookherjee, 2006; Brett, 2003; Oakley,…”
WOMEN AS POLICY MAKERS: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED POLICY EXPERIMENT IN INDIA (2004, background): “This can reflect the " capture " of decentralized government by the local elite, modelled for example in Bardhan and Mookherkjee (2000) and Besley and Coate (2001).”
Distributive Politics Around the World (2013, methodology): “An extension of the Grossman & Helman framework particularly pertinent to our purposes is found in a set of interrelated papers by Bardhan & Mookherjee (2000, 2005, 2006a).”
Democratization, Decentralization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy (2001, positive): “enhancing (e.g., Bardhan and Mookherjee 2000, 2001a, 2001b; Besley and Coate 2001).”
Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India (2012, neutral): “In column (3) we include other measures of a village’s political power - whether the village is the GP Headquarter and the number of wards in the village.”
Centralized Versus Decentralized Provision of Local Public Goods: a Political Economy Analysis (2003, background): “Bardhan and Mookherjee (2000) emphasize how differences in political awareness and political competition can affect the likelihood of capture by special interests under centralized or decentralized decision making.”