Journal article
Attribution and accountability: voting for roads in Ghana
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Do voters in Africa use elections to hold governments accountable for their performance in office? In contexts of limited information and weak state capacity, it can be difficult for citizens to attribute the provision of public goods and services to political action. As a result, voters often have little information about government performance on which to condition their electoral support. Such contexts are frequently characterized by clientelism or ethnic politics, and there is a widesprea...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1017/S0043887115000209
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- World Politics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 67
- Issue:
- 04
- Pages:
- 656-689
- Publication date:
- 2015-08-03
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1086-3338
- ISSN:
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0043-8871
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- Trustees of Princeton University
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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- COPYRIGHT: © Trustees of Princeton University 2015. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887115000209
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