Gonzalez, Robert

Monitoring Corruption: Can Top-Down Monitoring Crowd Out Grassroots Participation? - Economic Development and Cultural Change 2025 - 1073-1108

Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of grassroots monitoring is mixed. This paper proposes a previously unexplored mechanism that may explain this result. We argue that the presence of effective top-down monitoring alternatives can undermine citizen p

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Grassroots Participation
Micro-Fnance Projects
Village Infrastructure Projects
Corruption