...Akshay Govind Dixit; Munshi Sulaiman The authors evaluate a novel accountability-based approach to civic education, which enables young people to hold local authorities to account for the quality of public services. They theorize that engaging young people in making demands of local authorities...

...Brandice Canes-Wrone; Michael R. Kistner Recent research suggests that the penalty congressional candidates pay for ideological extremism declined abruptly in 1994 when the House majority became competitive for the first time in decades. We reexamine congressional accountability in light...

...Kate Baldwin; Shylock Muyengwa; Eric Mvukiyehe The problem of traditional leadership is often conceived as one of low accountability due to a single unelected leader having unchecked power within communities. Instead, we argue there are strong norms of collective deliberation in most traditional...

... incentives in isolation, this paper analyzes their net effect in the context of Bolsa Familia (BF) in Brazil, using a regression discontinuity design and data on seven million households from the program’s registry. The evidence supports political targeting over accountability: mayors with re...

... post. The extent to which elections contribute to peace and accountability depends on how incumbents trade-off between the two strategies given the institutional constraints. An option to falsify election results without being exposed increases the risk of conflict even if that option is not realized...

... elections in which policy choices are durable. The behavior that emerges in equilibrium reveals a novel mechanism through which durability interacts with the shorter electoral cycle and distorts the incentives of politicians. We find that a government that is electorally accountable nevertheless...

.... M. Snyder, Jr. Licensed re-use rights only Corruption accountability Congress elections political institutions A central role of political institutions is to control politicians and prevent the abuse of power for personal gain. This idea goes back to political theorists...