Title Information, accountability, and cumulative learning : lessons from Metaketa I / edited by Thad Dunning, Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Susan D. Hyde, Craig McIntosh, Gareth Nellis

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 464 pages) Series Cambridge studies in comparative politics Cambridge studies in comparative politics. Contents Cover; Half-title page; Reviews; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; I Information, Accountability, and a New Approach to Cumulative Learning; 1 Do Informational Campaigns Promote Electoral Accountability?; 1.1 Information and Political Accountability; 1.2 The Metaketa Initiative: A New Approach to Cumulative Learning; 1.3 Metaketa I: Application; 1.4 Findings; 1.5 Organization; 2 The Metaketa Initiative; 2.1 The Challenge of Cumulative Learning 2.1.1 Internal vs. External Validity? The Rise of RCTs2.2 The Metaketa Approach; 2.3 Making Metaketas Work; 2.3.1 Consolidation of Evidence: Innovation vs. Replication; 2.3.2 Research Transparency; 2.3.3 Ethical Principles; 2.3.4 Coordination of Interventions and Measures; 2.3.5 Formal Synthesis; 3 Informational Interventions: Theory and Measurement; 3.1 Information Dissemination and Electoral Accountability; 3.1.1 Theoretical Motivations; 3.1.2 Evidence on the Link between Information and Accountability; 3.2 Core Hypotheses of the Metaketa; 3.2.1 Defining Good and Bad News 3.3 Introducing the Metaketa I Studies3.4 Aggregating Good and Bad News; 3.4.1 Issues in Aggregating Our Specific Studies; 3.4.2 Outcome Measures; II Field Experiments; 4 Under What Conditions Does Performance Information Influence Voting Behavior? Lessons from Benin; 4.1 Research Design; 4.1.1 The Common Arm: Providing Performance Information; 4.1.2 Randomization; 4.1.3 Data; 4.1.4 Estimation; 4.2 Treatment Effects of the Common Arm; 4.3 Introducing Our Alternative Treatment Arms: Salience and Coordination; 4.4 Conclusion; 4.4.1 Explaining the Null Results 4.4.2 Implementation Challenges and Political Reactions4.4.3 Implications; 5 When Does Information Increase Electoral Accountability? Lessons from a Field Experiment in Mexico; 5.1 Local Elections and Electoral Accountability in Mexico; 5.2 Experimental Design and Data; 5.2.1 Experimental Design; 5.2.2 Data; 5.3 Analysis of Treatment Effects on the Common Treatment Arm; 5.3.1 Validity Checks; 5.3.2 Effects on Beliefs about Party Integrity; 5.3.3 Effect on Incumbent Party's Vote Share and Turnout; 5.3.4 Robustness Checks; 5.3.5 Heterogeneous Effects; 5.4 Treatment Variants 5.4.1 Private vs. Public Treatment5.4.2 Spending on the Poor vs. Unauthorized Spending; 5.5 Political Backlash; 5.6 Conclusion; 6 Candidate Videos and Vote Choice in Ugandan Parliamentary Elections; 6.1 Research Design; 6.1.1 The Intervention; 6.1.2 Subjects and Context; 6.1.3 Randomization; 6.1.4 Data Collection and Measurement; 6.1.5 Attrition and Treatment Compliance; 6.1.6 Defining Good News; 6.1.7 Descriptive Statistics; 6.2 Results; 6.2.1 Heterogeneous Treatment Effects; 6.3 Alternative Arm: Public Screening of Candidate Videos; 6.4 Conclusion; 7 Budgets, SMS Texts, and Votes in Uganda Summary Throughout the world, voters lack access to information about politicians, government performance, and public services. Efforts to remedy these informational deficits are numerous. Yet do informational campaigns influence voter behavior and increase democratic accountability? Through the first project of the Metaketa Initiative, sponsored by the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) research network, this book aims to address this substantive question and at the same time introduce a new model for cumulative learning that increases coordination among otherwise independent researcher teams. It presents the overall results (using meta-analysis) from six independently conducted but coordinated field experimental studies, the results from each individual study, and the findings from a related evaluation of whether practitioners utilize this information as expected. It also discusses lessons learned from EGAP's efforts to coordinate field experiments, increase replication of theoretically important studies across contexts, and increase the external validity of field experimental research Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Government accountability -- Developing countries Government information -- Developing countries Voting research -- Developing countries POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. Politics and government -- Research Government information Government accountability Political participation Voting research SUBJECT Developing countries -- Politics and government -- Research Subject Developing countries Form Electronic book Author Dunning, Thad, 1973- author. Grossman, Guy, editor Humphreys, Macartan, editor Hyde, Susan D., editor McIntosh, Craig, editor Nellis, Gareth, editor ISBN 9781108381390 1108381391

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