Throughout the world, voters lack access to information about politicians, government
performance, and public services. Efforts to remedy these informational deficits are …

Although theories of partisanship were developed for the democratic context, partisanship
can be important in electoral autocracies as well. We use survey data to analyze …

This article assesses whether the Local Government Council's Scorecard Initiative,
implemented in Uganda since 2009, achieved its intended impact of enhancing service …

Government accountability is severely lacking in many develo** countries, yet we know
relatively little about the causal dynamics that produce citizen demands for greater …

Are ordinary citizens or political party leaders better positioned to select candidates? While
the American primary system lets citizens choose, most democracies rely instead on party …

Despite strong theoretical foundations, randomized evaluations demonstrate that
subnational performance assessments have a mixed record in improving governance. We …

Scholars often extoll the benefits of knowledge accumulation. Natural experiments, however,
are often thought of as idiosyncratic and one-off studies that may not therefore contribute to …

Candidate debates are often important, and highly publicized, campaign events.
Increasingly, governmental and non-governmental organizations are organizing them in …

Do voters in Africa's new democracies hold leaders accountable for the results of their past
actions? Are heads of state punished or rewarded in a fashion that credibly signals that …

Do informational interventions shape electoral choices and thereby promote political
accountability? The chapters in Part II of this book provided answers to this question in …