Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
This article presents an experiment in which 49 Indonesian villages were randomly assigned to choose development projects through either representative-based meetings or direct election-based plebiscites. Plebiscites resulted in dramatically higher satisfaction among villagers, increased knowledge a...
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Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67017 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631 |