Election Fairness and Government Legitimacy in Afghanistan /
Berman, Eli.
Election Fairness and Government Legitimacy in Afghanistan / Eli Berman, Michael J. Callen, Clark Gibson, James D. Long. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w19949 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19949. .
March 2014.
International development agencies invest heavily in institution building in fragile states, including expensive interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of governments. Using the random assignment of an innovative election fraud-reducing intervention in Afghanistan, we find that decreasing electoral misconduct improves multiple survey measures of attitudes toward government, including: (1) whether Afghanistan is a democracy; (2) whether the police should resolve disputes; (3) whether members of parliament provide services; and (4) willingness to report insurgent behavior to security forces.
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Election Fairness and Government Legitimacy in Afghanistan / Eli Berman, Michael J. Callen, Clark Gibson, James D. Long. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w19949 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19949. .
March 2014.
International development agencies invest heavily in institution building in fragile states, including expensive interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of governments. Using the random assignment of an innovative election fraud-reducing intervention in Afghanistan, we find that decreasing electoral misconduct improves multiple survey measures of attitudes toward government, including: (1) whether Afghanistan is a democracy; (2) whether the police should resolve disputes; (3) whether members of parliament provide services; and (4) willingness to report insurgent behavior to security forces.
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.