Information distortion, elite capture and task complexity in decentralized development

Does Decentralization Enhance Service Delivery and Poverty Reduction?

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 23-72

  Platteau, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869096121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (132)

1. Abbas, H. (2005), Pakistan's Drift into Extremism - Allah, the Army, and America's War on Terror, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe.
2. Abraham, A. and J.-P. Platteau (2004), "Participatory Development: Where Culture Creeps In", in V. Rao and M. Walton (eds), Culture and Public Action, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 210-233.
3. Adams, A.M., T.G. Evans, R. Mohammed and J. Farnsworth (1997), "Socioeconomic Stratification by Wealth Rankings: Is It Valid?", World Development, 25 (7), 1165-1172.
4. Agrawal, A. and K. Gupta (2005), "Decentralization and Participation: The Governance of Common Pool Resources in Nepal's Terai", World Development, 33 (7), 1101-1114.
5. Alesina, A., R. Baqir and W. Easterly (1999), "Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114 (4), 1243-1284.
6. Alsop, R.J., A. Krishna and D. Sjoblom (2000), "Are Gram Panchayats Inclusive? Report of a Study Conducted in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh", Washington, DC: Social Development Unit, World Bank.
7. Araujo, M.C., F.H.G. Ferreira, P. Lanjouw and B. Ozler (2006), "Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador", Working Paper, Washington, DC: World Bank.
8. Asthana, A. (2003), "Decentralization and Supply Efficiency: The Case of Rural Water Supply in Central India", Journal of Development Studies, 39 (4), 148-159.
9. Baland, J.M. and J.P. Platteau (2003), "Economics of Common Property Management Regimes", in G. Mähler and J. Vincent (eds), Handbook of Environmental Economics, Amsterdam: North-Holland, Chap. 4, pp. 127-190.
10. Banerjee, A. and R. Somanathan (2005), "The Political Economy of Public Goods: Some Evidence from India", Working Paper, Department of Economics, MIT.
11. Banerjee, A., R. Banerji, E. Duflo, R. Glennerster and S. Khemani (2006), "Can Information Campaigns Spark Local Participation and Improve Outcomes? - A Study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India", World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3967, Washington, DC: World Bank.
12. Bardhan, P. (2002), "Decentralization of Governance and Development", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16 (4), 185-205.
13. Bardhan, P. and J. Dayton-Johnson (2007), "Inequality and the Governance of Water Resources in Mexico and South India", in J.M. Baland, P. Bardhan and S. Bowles (eds), Inequality, Collective Action and Environmental Sustainability, Princeton and New York: Princeton University Press.
14. Bardhan, P. and D. Mookherjee (1999), "Relative Capture of Local and Central Governments - An Essay in the Political Economy of Decentralization", Working Paper, Boston: Department of Economics, Boston University.
15. Bardhan, P. and D. Mookherjee (2000), "Capture and Governance at the Local and National Levels", American Economic Review, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 90 (2), 135-139.
16. Bardhan, P. and D. Mookherjee (2005), "Decentralizing Anti-poverty Programme Delivery in Developing Countries", Journal of Public Economics, 89 (4), 675-704.
17. Bardhan, P. and D. Mookherjee (2006a), Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries - A Comparative Perspective, Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press.
18. Bardhan, P. and D. Mookherjee (2006b), "Decentralization and Accountability in Infrastructure Delivery in Developing Countries", Economic Journal, 116 (508), 101-127.
19. Bardhan, P., S. Mitra, D. Mookherjee and A. Sarkar (2008), "Political Participation, Clientelism and Targeting of Local Government Programs: Analysis of Survey Results from Rural West Bengal, India", Discussion Paper No. 171, Boston: Institute of Economic Development (IED), Department of Economics, Boston University.
20. Bayart, J.F. (1986), "Civil Society in Africa", in P. Chabal (ed.), Political Domination in Africa - Reflections on the Limits of Power, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 109-125.
21. Bayart, J.F. (1989), L'Etat en Afrique, Paris: Fayard.
22. Bebbington, A. (1997), "New States, new NGOs? Crises and Transitions among Rural Development NGOs in the Andean Region", World Development, 25 (11), 1755-1765.
23. Behera, B. and S. Engel (2006), "Who Forms Local Institutions? Levels of Household Participation in India's Joint Forestry Management Program", ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy, Bonn: Center for Development Research.
24. Besley, T., R. Pande and V. Rao (2005), "Participatory Democracy in Action: Survey Evidence from South India", Journal of European Economic Association, 3 (2-3).
25. Bienen, H., D. Kapur, J. Parks and J. Riedlinger (1990), "Decentralization in Nepal", World Development, 18 (1), 61-75.
26. Bierschenk, T., J.P.O. de Sardan and J.P. Chauveau (eds) (2000), Courtiers en Développement - Les Villages Africains en Quête de Projets, Paris: Karthala.
27. Björkman, M. and J. Svensson (2007), "Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of a Community-based Monitoring Project in Uganda", CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6344.
28. Blair, H. (2000), "Participation and Accountability at the Periphery: Democratic Local Governance in Six Countries", World Development, 28 (1), 21-39.
29. Boone, C. (1992), Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal 1930- 1985, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
30. Brett, E.A. (2003), "Participation and Accountability in Development Management", Journal of Development Studies, 40 (2), 1-29.
31. Carroll, T. (1992), Intermediary NGOs: Supporting the Link in Grassroots Development, West Hartford: Kumarian Press.
32. Cernea, M.M. (1988), "Non-governmental Organizations and Local Development", World Bank Discussion Paper No. 40, Washington, DC: World Bank.
33. Chabal, P. and J.P. Daloz (1999), Africa Works. Disorder as Political Instrument, Oxford: James Currey.
34. Chandra, K. (2004), Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
35. Chattopadhyay, R. and E. Duflo (2004a), "Women as Policy-makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India", Econometrica, 72 (5), 1409-1443.
36. Chattopadhyay, R. and E. Duflo (2004b), "Impact of Reservation in Panchayati Raj: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment", Economic and Political Weekly, 28 February, 979-986.
37. Conning, J. and M. Kevane (2002), "Community-based Targeting Mechanisms for Social Safety Nets: A Critical Review", World Development, 30 (3), 375-394.
38. Coulibaly, C. (2003), "Revue de L'État de Mise en Oeuvre des Orientations de Praïa au Mali", Bamako, Mali: Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines, Université Mande Bukari (mimeo).
39. Crook, R.C. and A.S. Sverrisson (2001), "Decentralization and Poverty Alleviation in Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis or, Is West Bengal Unique?", IDS Working Paper No. 130, Sussex: Institute of Development Studies.
40. Cutler, D., D.W. Elmendorf and R.J. Zeckhauser (1993), "Demographic Characteristics and the Public Bundle", Working Paper, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
41. Das, M.K. (2000), "Kerala's Decentralized Planning - Floundering Experiment", Economic and Political Weekly, 2 December, 4300-4303.
42. De Haan, A., J. Holland and N. Kanji (2002), "Social Funds: An Effective Instrument to Support Local Actions for Poverty Reduction?", Journal of International Development, 14 (5), 643-652.
43. Esman, M.J. and N.T. Uphoff (1984), Local Organizations: Intermediaries in Rural Development, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
44. Eversole, R. (2003), "Managing the Pitfalls of Participatory Development: Some Insights from Australia", World Development, 31 (5), 781-795.
45. Finsterbusch, K. and W. Van Wicklin (1989), "Beneficiary Participation in Development Projects: Empirical Tests of Popular Theories", Economic Development and Cultural Change, 37 (2), 573-593.
46. Galasso, E. and M. Ravallion (2005), "Decentralized Targeting of an Anti-poverty Programme", Journal of Public Economics, 89 (4), 705-727.
47. Gray, M.L. (1999), "Creating Civil Society? The Emergence of NGOs in Vietnam", Development and Change, 30 (4), 693-713.
48. Guéneau, M. and B. Lecomte (1998), Sahel: Les Paysans dan les Marigots de L'Aide, Paris: Editions L'Harmattan.
49. Gugerty, M. and M. Kremer (1999), The Impacts of Development Funding on Social Capital: The Kenya Local Community Action Project, Washington, DC: The World Bank.
50. Harragin, S. (2004), "Relief and an Understanding of Local Knowledge: The Case of Southern Sudan", in V. Rao and M. Walton (eds), Culture and Public Action, Stanford: Stanford University Press.
51. Harrison, E. (2002), "The Problem with the Locals: Partnership and Participation in Ethiopia", Development and Change, 33 (4), 587-610.
52. Hernandez-Trillo, F. and B. Jarillo-Rabling (2008), "Is Local Beautiful? Fiscal Decentralization in Mexico", World Development, 36 (9), 1547-1558.
53. Hoddinott, J., M. Adato, T. Besley and L. Haddad (2001), "Participation and Poverty Reduction: Issues, Theory, and New Evidence from South Africa", FCND Discussion Paper No. 98, Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
54. Holdcroft, Lane (1984), "The Rise and Fall of Community Development, 1950-65: A Critical Assessment", in Carl Eicher and John M. Staatz (eds), Agricultural Development in the Third World, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
55. Inbanathan, A. (1999), "Decentralisation and Affirmative Action: The Case of Panchayats in Karnataka", Journal of Social and Economic Development, 2 (2), 269-286.
56. Inbanathan, A. (2000), "Power, Patronage and Accountability in the Panchayats of Karnataka", Working Paper No. 68, Bangalore (India): Institute for Social and Economic Change.
57. Inbanathan, A. and D.V. Gopalappa (2002), "Fixers, Patronage, 'Fixing', and Local Governance in Karnataka", Working Paper No. 12, Bangalore (India), Institute for Social and Economic Change.
58. Isaac, T. (1998), "Decentralization, Democracy and Development: People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning in Kerala", Paper presented at the International Conference on Decentralization: Devolution and Participation, Government of West Bengal, Calcutta: State Planning Board.
59. Isaac, T.M. and R.W. Franke (2002), Local Democracy and Development: The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
60. Isaac, T. and K.N. Harilal (1997), "Planning for Empowerment", Economic and Political Weekly, 32 (1-2), 53-58.
61. Isham, J. and S. Kähkönen (2002a), "How Do Participation and Social Capital Affect Community-based Water Projects? Evidence from Central Java, Indonesia", in C. Grootaert and T. Van Batselaer (eds), The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical Assessment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
62. Isham, J. and S. Kähkönen (2002b), "Institutional Determinants of the Impact of Community-Based Water Services: Evidence from Sri Lanka and India", Economic Development and Cultural Change, 50 (3), 667-691.
63. Isham, J. and D. Narayan (1995), "Does Participation Improve Performance? Establishing Causality with Subjective Data", The World Bank Economic Review, 9 (2), 175-200.
64. Jutting, J., C. Kauffmann, I. McDonnell, H. Osterrieder, N. Pinaud and L. Wenger (2004), "Decentralization and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Exploring the Impact", OECD Development Centre, Working Paper No. 236, Paris: OECD.
65. Katz, T. and J. Sara (1997), "Making Rural Water Supply Sustainable: Recommendations from a Global Study", UNDP-World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, Washington, DC: World Bank.
66. Keefer, P. and S. Khemani (2005), "Democracy, Public Expenditures and the Poor", World Bank Research Observer, 20 (1), 1-27.
67. Kennedy, J., S. Rozelle and Y. Shi (2004), "Elected Leaders and Collective Land: Farmers' Evaluation of Village Leaders' Performance in Rural China", Journal of Chinese Political Science, 9 (1), 1-22.
68. Kennedy, P. (1988), African Capitalism - The Struggle for Ascendency, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
69. Khan, M.H. (2000), "Rent-Seeking as Process", in M.H. Khan and K.S. Jomo (eds), Rents, Rent-seeking and Economic Development - Theory and Evidence in Asia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 70-144.
70. Khan, M.H. (2004), "State Failure in Developing Countries and Strategies of Institutional Reform", SOAS Working Paper, London: School of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of London.
71. Khwaja, A.I. (2003), "Can Good Projects Succeed in Bad Communities? The Determinants of Collective Success in Maintaining Local Public Goods", Faculty Research Working Papers Series, Cambridge, MA: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
72. Khwaja, A.I. (2004), "Is Increasing Community Participation Always a Good Thing?", Journal of the European Economic Association, 2 (2), 427-436.
73. Klitgaard, R. (1997), "Unanticipated Consequences in Anti-poverty Programs", World Development, 25 (12), 1963-1972.
74. Kumar, N. (2008), "Pro-poor Targeting and Participatory Governance: Evidence from Central India", Discussion Paper No. 176, Institute of Economic Development (IED), Boston: Department of Economics, Boston University.
75. Kumar, S. (2002), "Does 'Participation' in Common Pool Resource Management Help the Poor? A Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Joint Forest Management in Jharkand, India", World Development, 30 (5), 763-782.
76. Kumar, S. and S. Corbridge (2002), "Programmed to Fail? Development Projects and the Politics of Participation?", Journal of Development Studies, 39 (2), 73-103.
77. Labonne, J. and R. Chase (2006), "Who is at the Wheel When Communities Drive Development? The Case of the KALAHI-CIDSS in the Philippines", mimeo, Washington, DC: World Bank.
78. La Ferrara, E. (2002), "Inequality and Group Participation: Theory and Evidence from Rural Tanzania", Journal of Public Economics, 85 (2), 235-273.
79. Laurent, P.J. (1998), Une Association de Développement en Pays Mossi - Le Don Comme Ruse, Paris: Editions Karthala.
80. Li, Tania Murray (2001), "Boundary Work: Community, Market, and State Reconsidered", in A. Agrawal and C.C. Gibson (eds), Communities and the Environment - Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community-based Conservation, New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, pp. 157-179.
81. Lund, C. (2006), "Twilight Institutions: An Introduction", Development and Change, 37 (4), 685-705.
82. Mansuri, G. and V. Rao (2004), "Community-based and -driven Development: A Critical Review", World Bank Research Observer, 19 (1), 1-39.
83. McDermott, Melanie H. (2001), "Invoking Community - Indigenous People and Ancestral Domain in Palawan, the Philippines", in A. Agrawal and C.C. Gibson (eds), Communities and the Environment - Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community-based Conservation, New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, pp. 32-62.
84. Mehta, A. (2000), "The Micro Politics of Participatory Projects: An Anatomy of Change in Two Villages", in P.E. Peters (ed.), Development Encounters - Sites of Participation and Knowledge, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 15-28.
85. Meisel, N. and J.O. Aoudia (2008), Is "Good Governance" a Good Development Strategy?, Paris: Research Department, Agence Française de Développement.
86. Meyer, C.A. (1995), "Opportunism and NGOs - Entrepreneurship and Green North-South Transfers", World Development, 23 (8), 1277-1289.
87. Molinas, J.R. (1998), "The Impact of Inequality, Gender, External Assistance and Social Capital on Local-level Cooperation", World Development, 26 (3), 413-431.
88. Mosse, D. (1997), "The Symbolic Making of a Common Property Resource: History, Ecology and Locality in a Tank-irrigated Landscape in South India", Development and Change, 28 (3), 467-504.
89. Mosse, D. (2001), "People Knowledge, Participation and Patronage: Operations and Representations in Rural Development", in Bill Cooke and Uma Kothari (eds), Participation: The New Tyranny?, London and New York: Zed Books, pp. 16-35.
90. Nair, G. (2000), "People's Planning in Kerala: A Case Study of Two Village Panchayats", Discussion Paper No. 16, Thiruvananthapuram: KRPLLD.
91. North, D.C., J.J. Wallis and B.R. Weingast (2006), "A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History", NBER Working Paper No. 12795.
92. Nygren, A. (2005), "Community-based Forest Management Within the Context of Institutional Decentralization in Honduras", World Development, 33 (4), 639-655.
93. Olken, B.A. (2005), "Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia", NBER Working Paper No. W11753.
94. Osmani, S. (2008), "Participatory Governance: An Overview of Issues and Evidence", in Participatory Governance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), publication based on the Expert Group Meeting on Engaged Governance: Citizen Participation in the Implementation of the Development Goals including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 1-2 November 2006, United Nations, New York, pp. 1-45.
95. Oyono, P.R. (2004), "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? Paradoxes of Natural Resources Management Decentralization in Cameroon", Journal of Modern African Studies, 42 (1), 91-111.
96. Oyono, P.R. (2005), "Profiling Local-level Outcomes of Environmental Decentralizations: The Case of Cameroon's Forests in the Congo Basin", Journal of Environment and Development, 14 (2), 1-21.
97. Pande, R. (2003), "Can Mandated Political Representation Increase Political Influence for Disadvantaged Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India", American Economic Review, 93 (4), 1132-1151.
98. Paxson, C. and N. Schady (2002), "The Allocation and Impact of Social Funds: Spending on School Infrastructure in Peru", The World Bank Economic Review, 16 (2), 297-319.
99. Platteau, J.-P. (2004), "Community-based Development in the Context of Within Group Heterogeneity", in F. Bourguignon and B. Pleskovic (eds), Proceedings of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2004, Washington, DC: The World Bank, pp. 241-270.
100. Platteau, J.-P. and A. Abraham (2002), "Participatory Development in the Presence of Endogenous Community Imperfections", Journal of Development Studies, 39 (2), 104-136.
101. Platteau, J.P. and A. Abraham (2004), "Participatory Development: Where Culture Creeps In", in V. Rao and M. Walton (eds), Culture and Public Action, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 210-233.
102. Platteau, J.P. and F. Gaspart (2003), "The Risk of Resource Misappropriation in Community-based Development Projects", World Development, 31 (10), 1687-1703.
103. Pozzoni, B. and N. Kumar (2005), A Review of the Literature on Participatory Approaches to Local Development, Operations Evaluation Department (OED), Washington, DC: The World Bank.
104. Prokopy, L.S. (2005), "The Relationship between Participation and Project Outcomes: Evidence from Rural Water Supply Projects in India", World Development, 33 (11), 1801-1819.
105. Pur, K.A. (2007) "Rivalry or Synergy? Formal and Informal Local Governance in Rural India", Development and Change, 38 (3), 401-421.
106. Rao, V. and A.M. Ibanez (2001), "The Social Impact of Social Funds in Jamaica: A Mixed-methods Analysis of Participation, Targeting and Collective Action in Community driven Development", DECRG, Washington, DC: The World Bank.
107. Ribot, J.C. (1996), "Participation Without Representation: Chiefs, Councils and Forestry Law in the West African Sahel", Cultural Survival Quarterly, Fall, 40-44.
108. Ribot, J.C. (2002), Democratic Decentralization of Natural Resources - Institutionalizing Popular Participation, Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.
109. Rosenzweig, M.R. and A.D. Foster (2003), "Democratization, Decentralization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy", BREAD Working Paper No. 10.
110. Scott, J.C. (1976), The Moral Economy of the Peasant - Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
111. Scott, J.C. (1985), Weapons of the Weak - Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
112. Sethuraman, K. (1999), "Participation in People's Campaign Programmes: A Case Study of the Participation of Tribal People", MPhil Thesis, Thiruvananthapuram (India): Centre for Development Studies.
113. Sharma, R. (2003), "Kerala's Decentralization: Idea in Practice", Economic and Political Weekly, 38 (36), 3832-3850.
114. Somanathan, E., R. Prabhakar and B.S. Mehta (2007), "Collective Action for Forest Conservation: Does Heterogeneity Matter?", in J.M. Baland, P. Bardhan and S. Bowles (eds), Inequality, Cooperation and Environmental Sustainability, Princeton and New York: Princeton University Press.
115. Somville, V. (2006), "Information Distortion in Community-based Development", Working Paper, Centre for Research on the Economics of Development (CRED), University of Namur (Belgium).
116. Somville, V. and J.-P. Platteau (2009), "An Analytical Approach to Information Distortion in Participatory Development Programs", Working Paper, Centre for Research on the Economics of Development (CRED), University of Namur (Belgium).
117. Stavis, B. (1982-83), "Rural Local Governance and Agricultural Development in Taiwan", in N.T. Uphoff (ed.), Rural Development and Local Organization in Asia, New Delhi: Macmillan, Vol. II, pp. 166-271.
118. Stiles, K. (2002), "International Support for NGOs in Bangladesh: Some Unintended Consequences", World Development, 30 (5), 835-846.
119. Tembo, F. (2003), Participation, Negotiation and Poverty: Encountering the Power of Images, Aldershot: Ashgate.
120. Tendler, J. (1997), Good Government in the Tropics, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
121. Véron, R. (2001), "The 'New' Kerala Model: Lessons for Sustainable Development", World Development, 29 (4), 601-617.
122. Vijayalakshmi, V. (2003a), "Gender Accountability and Political Representation in Local Government", Working Paper No. 102, Bangalore (India): Institute for Social and Economic Change.
123. Vijayalakshmi, V. (2003b), "Accountability and Governance: Local Government in Kerala and Karnataka", Working Paper No. 125, Bangalore (India): Institute for Social and Economic Change.
124. von Braun, J. and U. Grote, (2002), "Does Decentralization Serve the Poor?", in E. Ahmed and V. Tanzi (eds), Managing Fiscal Decentralization, London: Routledge , pp. 68-95.
125. Wade, R. (1985), "The Market for Public Office: Why the Indian State Is Not Better at Development ?", World Development, 13 (4), 467-497.
126. Wade, R. (1990), "Employment, Water Control and Water Supply Institutions: India and South Korea", in W. Gooneratne and S. Hirashima (eds), Irrigation and Water Management in Asia, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers.
127. Wang, S. and Y. Yao (2007), "Grassroots Democracy and Local Governance: Evidence from Rural China", World Development, 35 (10), 1635-1649.
128. Westergaard, K. and M. Alam (1995), "Local Government in Bangladesh: Past Experiences and Yet Another Try", World Development, 23 (4), 679-690.
129. White, H. (2002), "Social Funds: A Review of the Issues", Journal of International Development, 14 (5), 627-642.
130. White, R. and C. Eicher (1999), "NGOs and the African Farmer: A Skeptical Perspective", Staff Paper No. 99-01, East Lansing, Michigan: Department of Agricultural Economics, MSU.
131. World Bank (2005), The Effectiveness of World Bank Support for Communitybased and -driven Development, Operations Evaluation Department (OED), Washington, DC.
132. Zhang, X., S. Fan, L. Zhang and J. Huang (2004), "Local Governance and Public Goods Provision in Rural China", Journal of Public Economics, 88 (12), 2857-2871.