Weeks 6-9 Flashcards
(3 cards)
What does David Szakonyi (2025) examine?
“Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia”
“kompromat deputies”: measures deputies who either failed to disclose income or assests (ie: luxury cars) to hypothesize that lying financial disclosures demonstrate are not only corrupt, but compromised politically
* measures votes on government bills
* controls party
FINDINGS: these deputies are less active and more absent members of parliament
What do Mirko Heinzel, Catherine Weaver, and Samantha Jorgensen (2025) examine?
H1: (any mainstreaming). There is no difference between women and men staff in the inclusion of gender mainstreaming into the projects they implement.
H2: (deep mainstreaming). If women staff oversee project implementation, these projects will include deeper gender mainstreaming.
H3: (any mainstreaming). Bureaucratic units with a higher proportion of women do not differ in the inclusion of gender mainstreaming components.
H4:(deepmainstreaming). If a higher proportion of positions in a bureaucratic unit are held by women, projects will include deeper gender mainstreaming.
We employ ordinary least squares regression, entropy balancing, as well as instru- mental variable regressions. Our main independent vari- ables are dummy variables indicating whether any CDs, PMs, and TTLs in charge of individual Bank projects were women (H1 and H2) and the share of women appointed in the previous sector-year (H3 and H4).
“We find strong evidence that women TTLs run projects with deeper mainstreaming. We show that projects are more likely to incorporate gender mainstreaming components and the depth of gender mainstreaming increases when CDs are women. However, we do not attain similar results for PMs. The regression models support our expectation that a greater proportion shapes the depth of gender main- streaming, implying that hiring more women staff seems to alter the behavior of staff working in the sector more generally. Our results show that men staff with more experience with gender-focused projects (gender exper- tise) implement somewhat deeper gender mainstreaming than women without such gender expertise”
What do Edmund J. Malesky, Cuong Viet Nguyen, and Ahn Tran (2014) examine?
“The Impact of Recentralization on Public Services: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Abolition of Elected Councils in Vietnam”
Context: Vietnam had decentralized and given power to local DPC in hopes to improve public service delivery but it was filled with frustration, delay, and corruption
Hypothesis: recentralizing would help
Method: in 2009, abolished DPCs in 99 districts and left them in 53 provinces
Pre-treatment: 2008
Post: 2010
Interaction: DPCabolish*2010
Dep vars: transportation, health, communication, education, agriculture, and business services
Results: positive effect on transportation, healthcare & communication; no effect on education, agriculture, and business; neg effect on veterinary services and tax support
Conclusion: recentralization aligned public services with government priorities rather than local citizen’s priorities
