TY  - SER
AU  - Gonzalez, Robert
AU  -  Harvey, Matthew
AU  -  Tzachrista, Foteini
TI  - Monitoring Corruption: Can Top-Down Monitoring Crowd Out Grassroots Participation?
SN  - 0013-0079
PB  - Economic Development and Cultural Change
KW  -  Grassroots Participation
KW  -  Micro-Fnance Projects
KW  -  Village Infrastructure Projects
KW  - Corruption
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730490
ER  -