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Election Fairness and Government Legitimacy in Afghanistan / Eli Berman, Michael J. Callen, Clark Gibson, James D. Long.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berman, Eli.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19949.
- NBER working paper series no. w19949
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2014.
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