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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Bussell, Jennifer L. |
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Why get technical? Corruption and the politics of public service reform in the Indian states |
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2010 |
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p.1230-1257. |
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Oct |
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The emergence of new information and communication technoloies in the 1990s offered governments opportunities to deliver public services more effectively to their citizens. Yet national and subnational authorities have employed such technologies in highly uneven ways. Drawing on a new data set of technology policy adoption by Indian states, the author argues that political calculations drive variation in the timing and scope of technology policies. Politicians weigh the expected electoral benefits from providing new goods to citizens against the expected electoral costs of reduced access to corrupt funds because of increased transparency. The author shows that the level of bureaucratic corruption in a state is the best predictor of both when states implement policies promoting computer-enabled services and the number of services made available. This finding contrasts with arguments that posit economic or developmental conditions, or alternative electoral and institutional characteristics, as the major drivers of technology investment. - Reproduced. |
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Corruption - India |
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Information technology - India |
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Public utilities - India |
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Public utilities |
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Comparative Political Studies |
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