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When Citizen Engagement Saves Lives (and what we can learn from it)
When it comes to the relationship between participatory institutions and development outcomes, participatory budgeting stands out as one of the best examples out there. For instance, in a paper...
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Social Accountability: What Does the Evidence Really Say?
So what does the evidence about citizen engagement say? Particularly in the development world it is common to say that the evidence is “mixed”. It is the type of answer that, even if correct in...
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Now the paper: Evidence of Social Accountability Initiatives
A little while ago I wrote about Jonathan Fox’s work on the evidence of social accountability initiatives. Initially in the format of a PDF slide presentation, it has now been turned into a...
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New Evidence that Citizen Engagement Increases Tax Revenues
pic by Tax Credits on flickr Quite a while ago, drawing mainly from the literature on tax morale, I posted about the evidence on the relationship between citizen engagement and tax revenues, in which...
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Catching up (again!) on DemocracySpot
It’s been a while since the last post here. In compensation, it’s not been a bad year in terms of getting some research out there. First, we finally managed to publish “Civic Tech in the Global South:...
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New Research on Participatory Governance and Tax Compliance
At the World Bank, we have published two new studies on the effect of citizen engagement on tax morale and tax compliance. In the first, published last month, we examine the Brazilian case, using data...
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