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