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Politics and Service Delivery: When Do Governments Fail Voters?
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A workshop organized by the 2004 WDR and DECRG | Thursday, April 29, 2004 | | 1:00pm - 1:30pm | WHY DO DEMOCRACIES OFTEN FAIL TO DELIVER PUBLIC SERVICES TO THE POOR? Speaker: Shantayanan Devarajan, World Bank
Chair: L. Alan Winters, World Bank
| | 1:30pm - 3:15pm | ACCOUNTABILITY FAILURE I: LACK OF CREDIBILITY
“Non-credible governments are unaccountable governments”
Chair: L. Alan Winters, World Bank - James Robinson, University of California, Berkeley: Politician-proof policy.
( related paper 1) - Stephen Haber, Stanford University: Banking in the shadow of non-credible politicians. (related papers 1, 2, 3)
- Philip Keefer, World Bank: Political credibility and clientelism: The problem of public good provision when only clients matter. (related papers 1, 2;
joint papers with S. Khemani 1, 2)
Discussants: Stephen Knack, World Bank
Anders Olofsgård, Georgetown University
| | 3:45pm - 5:30pm | ACCOUNTABILITY FAILURE II: LACK OF INFORMATION
“Uninformed citizen oversight is no oversight at all”
Chair: Lant Pritchett, Harvard University and World Bank - Tim Besley, London School of Economics: Does providing information to voters improve political accountability? (related paper 1)
- Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan: Necessary conditions for improving civic competence. (related paper 1)
- David Strömberg, Stockholm University: Media access and political influence.
Discussants: Tara Vishwanath, World Bank
Ritva Reinikka, World Bank
| | Friday, April 30, 2004 | | 9:00am - 10:45am | STRENGTHENING ACCOUNTABILITY: CITIZEN ACTION
“Paying off losers and organizing winners is not enough”
Chair: Junaid K. Ahmad, World Bank - Digvijay Singh, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, India (by video link)
- J. Edgardo Campos, World Bank
- Jayaprakash Narayan, Lok Satta, India (by video link)
- Joel Hellman, World Bank
- Stephen Ndegwa, World Bank
| | 11:15am - 1:00pm | ACCOUNTABILITY FAILURE III: SOCIAL POLARIZATION
“Polarized citizens loosen the reins of accountability”
Chair: Michael Walton, World Bank - Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Who is getting the public goods in India? (related papers 1, 2, 3)
- Leonard Wantchekon, New York University: Ethnicity, gender, and demand for public goods: Experimental evidence from Benin. (related paper 1)
- Jean-Philippe Platteau, FUNDP, Namur: Community-based development is not a panacea: Some lessons from NGO experiences. (related papers 1, 2, 3)
Discussants: Karla Hoff, World Bank
Vijayendra Rao, World Bank
| | 2:00pm- 3:45pm | ACCOUNTABILITY: INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY REFORMS
“Increasing public expenditures is not enough”
Chair: Sanjay Pradhan, World Bank - Jean-Paul Faguet, London School of Economics: Integrating interest groups, civil society and political competition: Local government post decentralization.
(related paper 1) - Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Stanford University: Private vs. public goods as electoral investments. Vote buying in the Programa Nacional de Solidaridad in Mexico (with Federico Estevez and Beatriz Magaloni).
- Stuti Khemani, World Bank: Delegating decisions on minimum basic services to an independent agency—can it make a difference? (related papers 1, 2; joint papers with P. Keefer 1, 2)
Discussants: Rohini Pande, Yale University
Ehtisham Ahmad, International Monetary Fund
| | 4:15pm - 5:30pm | HARD TALK: WHAT CAN THE WORLD BANK DO?
Moderator: Shantayanan Devarajan, World Bank
Panelists: - Jean-Louis Sarbib, World Bank
- Tim Besley, London School of Economics
- Shekhar Shah, World Bank
- Rosemary Stevenson, ED, World Bank
- Julian Schweitzer, World Bank
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