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Replication Data for "Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure"
No full textThis dataset contains replication materials for:
Post, Alison E. 2014. "Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure." New York: Cambridge University Press
Replication Data for: Hyun, Christopher, Post, Alison E., and Isha Ray. 2017. "Frontline Worker Compliance with Transparency Reforms: Barriers Posed by Family and Financial Responsibilities." Governance. DOI: 10.1111/gove.12268.
No full textPaper abstract:
Significant development funding is channeled into informational interventions intended to improve the quality of public services. Such “transparency fixes” often depend upon the cooperation of frontline workers who produce and disseminate information for citizens. In this paper, we study frontline worker compliance with a transparency intervention in Bangalore’s water sector, providing one of the first multi- method companion studies to a field experiment. Based on ethnographic observation and analysis of an original dataset, we find that it is essential to understand how workers prioritize new responsibilities relative to longstanding ones. Worker perceptions of the “core” job can be sticky—especially when constantly reaffirmed through interactions with citizens. For workers whose family responsibilities take time away from their positions, new tasks are even more neglected. While the street-level bureaucracy and principal agent literatures emphasize how personal characteristics influence compliance, our findings highlight the importance of financial and familial circumstances.
Additional notes:
This project was funded by the Development Impact Laboratory, Blum Center for Developing Economies, U.C. Berkeley (USAID Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-A- 13- 00002) and through a pre-dissertation grant from the Institute for International Studies, U.C. Berkeley
Replication Data for: Hyun, Christopher, Post, Alison E., and Isha Ray. 2017. "Frontline Worker Compliance with Transparency Reforms: Barriers Posed by Family and Financial Responsibilities." Governance. DOI: 10.1111/gove.12268.
No full textPaper abstract:
Significant development funding is channeled into informational interventions intended to improve the quality of public services. Such “transparency fixes” often depend upon the cooperation of frontline workers who produce and disseminate information for citizens. In this paper, we study frontline worker compliance with a transparency intervention in Bangalore’s water sector, providing one of the first multi- method companion studies to a field experiment. Based on ethnographic observation and analysis of an original dataset, we find that it is essential to understand how workers prioritize new responsibilities relative to longstanding ones. Worker perceptions of the “core” job can be sticky—especially when constantly reaffirmed through interactions with citizens. For workers whose family responsibilities take time away from their positions, new tasks are even more neglected. While the street-level bureaucracy and principal agent literatures emphasize how personal characteristics influence compliance, our findings highlight the importance of financial and familial circumstances.
Additional notes:
This project was funded by the Development Impact Laboratory, Blum Center for Developing Economies, U.C. Berkeley (USAID Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-A- 13- 00002) and through a pre-dissertation grant from the Institute for International Studies, U.C. Berkeley
Replication Data for "Flows, leaks and blockages in informational interventions: A field experimental study of Bangalore's water sector"
No full textMany policies and programs based on informational interventions hinge upon the assumption that providing citizens with information can help improve the quality of public services, or help citizens cope with poor services. We present a causal framework that can be used to identify leaks and blockages in the information production and dissemination process in such programs. We conceptualize the “information pipeline” as a series of connected nodes, each of which constitutes a possible point of blockage. We apply the framework to a field-experimental evaluation of a program that provided households in Bangalore, India, with advance notification of intermittently provided piped water. Our study detected no impacts on household wait times for water or on how citizens viewed the state, but found that notifications reduced stress. Our framework reveals that, in our case, noncompliance among human intermediaries and asymmetric gender relations contributed in large part to these null-to-modest results. Diagnostic frameworks like this should be used more extensively in development research to better understand the mechanisms responsible for program success and failure, to identify subgroups that actually received the intended treatment, and to identify potential leaks and blockages when replicating existing programs in new settings
Replication Data for "Flows, leaks and blockages in informational interventions: A field experimental study of Bangalore's water sector"
No full textMany policies and programs based on informational interventions hinge upon the assumption that providing citizens with information can help improve the quality of public services, or help citizens cope with poor services. We present a causal framework that can be used to identify leaks and blockages in the information production and dissemination process in such programs. We conceptualize the “information pipeline” as a series of connected nodes, each of which constitutes a possible point of blockage. We apply the framework to a field-experimental evaluation of a program that provided households in Bangalore, India, with advance notification of intermittently provided piped water. Our study detected no impacts on household wait times for water or on how citizens viewed the state, but found that notifications reduced stress. Our framework reveals that, in our case, noncompliance among human intermediaries and asymmetric gender relations contributed in large part to these null-to-modest results. Diagnostic frameworks like this should be used more extensively in development research to better understand the mechanisms responsible for program success and failure, to identify subgroups that actually received the intended treatment, and to identify potential leaks and blockages when replicating existing programs in new settings
Replication Data for: How Investor Portfolios Shape Regulatory Outcomes: Privatized Infrastructure After Crises
No full textAbstract: Many developing countries privatized utilities during the 1990s. Their weak institutional environments, however, make them prone to crises that generate incentives for governments to renege on contractual commitments to investors. To understand variation in post-crisis regulatory outcomes in such contexts, scholars must consider investors’ prior choices regarding portfolio structure. Investors facing high reputational costs from exit are more likely to remain following expropriation, and those holding diverse assets in their contract jurisdiction, to secure compensation. These factors account for significant unexplained within-sector and subnational variation, for which we provide qualitative and quantitative evidence from Argentina’s water and electricity sectors following the 2001 crisis
Replication Data for: How Investor Portfolios Shape Regulatory Outcomes: Privatized Infrastructure After Crises
No full textAbstract: Many developing countries privatized utilities during the 1990s. Their weak institutional environments, however, make them prone to crises that generate incentives for governments to renege on contractual commitments to investors. To understand variation in post-crisis regulatory outcomes in such contexts, scholars must consider investors’ prior choices regarding portfolio structure. Investors facing high reputational costs from exit are more likely to remain following expropriation, and those holding diverse assets in their contract jurisdiction, to secure compensation. These factors account for significant unexplained within-sector and subnational variation, for which we provide qualitative and quantitative evidence from Argentina’s water and electricity sectors following the 2001 crisis
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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