The Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Local Government Service Delivery

Evidence From Sumedang

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8416469
AutoresAnwar Musadat (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume59
Fascículo1
Páginas29-60
Data de publicação2023-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-4918 • E-ISSN: 1472-7234
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00074918.2021.1931031
OpenAlexW4213088816
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas38

This paper examines the effects of participatory budgeting on local government service delivery in the district of Sumedang, West Java, using synthetic control methods. I use four indicators to measure the local government’s service delivery performance: household access to safe sanitation and water, and the net junior and senior secondary school enrolment rates. The findings indicate that participatory budgeting improved the net junior secondary enrolment rate for the overall population compared to the counterfactual, but not that it improved the access of the poor to any of the areas investigated. I argue that this is due to the dominance of local elites in agenda setting, a lack of strategies to target poverty and the low levels of participation of the poor in participatory budgeting processes

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