Ethnicity, Governance and the Provision of Public Goods

No 2003-49, Working papers from University of Connecticut, Department of Economics

Abstract: Ethnicity is an important institution and one that impacts on the quality of governance. This paper focuses on the behavior of ethnic groups and specifically on their impact on the provision of public goods. The paper shows that ethnic heterogeneity results in under-provision of non-excludable public goods. On the other hand, such societies associate with provision of patronage goods. The paper proposes some areas of research such the economics of ethnic institutions, empirical evidence of the role ethnic groups on public goods provision, tax compliance and institutional reforms to improve governance.

JEL-codes: D70 D74 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2003-04
Note: This paper was prepared for presentation at the December 2003 Biannual Meetings of the African Economic Research Consortium. I am grateful to Japeth Awiti and Boaz Munga for research assistance and Germano Mwabu for comments. Nevertheless, I am the sole residual claimant to all remaining errors.
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://media.economics.uconn.edu/working/2003-49.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Ethnicity, Governance and the Provision of Public Goods (2006)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:uct:uconnp:2003-49

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working papers from University of Connecticut, Department of Economics University of Connecticut 365 Fairfield Way, Unit 1063 Storrs, CT 06269-1063. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mark McConnel ().