The Effect of Government Responsiveness on Future Political Participation

When governments respond, do people become more engaged in their community?


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Frederik M Sjoberg, Jonathan Mellon, Tiago Peixoto


Assessing almost 400,000 FixMyStreet reports, this research examines whether getting a problem fixed results in citizens going on to make further reports, each of which may be seen as a contribution to their community.


Contents

  1. Summary
  2. Abstract
  3. Introduction
  4. Efficacy, Government Responsiveness, and Participation
    1. Hypotheses
    2. Data Description
  5. Statistical Modeling
    1. Analysis
  6. Results
    1. Testing for Endogeneity
    2. The long-term impact of initial success in participation
    3. Alternative explanations
  7. Conclusions
  8. Appendices
    1. Summary Statistics
    2. Fixes Summary Statistics
    3. Robustness tests
    4. Acknowledgements

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