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Governments across the world have increasingly devolved powers to locally elected leaders. This paper studies the consequences of local democracy, exploiting a natural experiment in Karnataka, India. Local elections were postponed in 2020, resulting in appointed administrators taking over governance in villages whose elected leaders completed their terms that year. This created quasi-random variation in the governance regime across villages. The paper...
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Arora,Abhishek; George,Siddharth; Rao,Vijayendra; Sharan,MR.

The Added Value of Local Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10555; COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099254008252327013

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