Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity:Implementing Primary Education in India's Himalayan Region     Norms  State Capacity  Civil Society  Education  India       font style='font-size:12px;'> 2015/4/29

Himachal Pradesh has surged ahead of other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through a combination of field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureauc...

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The Power of Political Voice:Women's Political Representation and Crime in India     Leadership  Crime and Corruption  Local Range  Laws and Statutes       font style='font-size:12px;'> 2015/4/24

Using state-level variation in the timing of political reforms, we find that an increase in female representation in local government induces a large and significant rise in documented crimes against ...

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Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India     Governance Controls  Political Elections  Management Skills  Managerial Roles       font style='font-size:12px;'> 2015/4/22

We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique ...

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Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections?Agricultural Credit in India     Agribusiness  Banks and Banking  Financing and Loans  Political Elections  State Ownership  Banking Industry  India       font style='font-size:12px;'> 2015/4/22

This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test for political capture in a novel way. Studying banks in India, I find that governme...

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