| Wednesday 3 February |
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| 8:00-8:45 | Registration and continental breakfast |
| 9.00-10.00 | Keynote Paper | Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee |
Session 1: Methodological advances in analyzing local governments |
| 10.00-10.45 | Paper 1 | Computable General Political Equilibrium Models as a tool to analyze local politics: An application to Poland
Christian Henning and Volker Saggau |
| 10.45-11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00-11.40 | Paper 2 | Is Deliberation Equitable? Evidence from Village Meeting Transcripts
Radu Ban and Vijendra Rao
http://www.cultureandpublicaction.org/bijupdf/ban_rao_deliberation_1202.pdf |
| 11:40-12:20 | Paper 3 | Dignity through Discourse: Poverty and the Culture of Deliberation in Indian Village Democracies
Vijendra Rao and Paromita Sanyal
http://www.cultureandpublicaction.org/bijupdf/Rao_Sanyal_2009_Annals.pdf |
| 12:20 -12:40 | Paper 4 | Influence-Network-Mapping as a tool to assess how local governments implement development programs – Evidence from Ghana and India
Regina Birner, Madhu Sekher, K. Gayathridevi, Katharina Raabe and Eva Schiffer |
| 12:40-1:15 | Lunch Break |
| 1:15-2:00 | Paper 5 | Estimating policy networks and political influence of local elites: A latent class model approach to Polish and Slovakian policy elites
Christian Assmann, Christian Henning and Eva Krampe |
| 2:00-3:00 | Keynote paper | Ehtisham Ahmad |
| 3:00-3:15 | Coffee Break |
Session 2: Institutional design and public resource allocation |
| 3:15-3:55 | Paper 6 | Can institutional design limit clientelism? A study of the District Assemblies Common Fund in Ghana
Afua Branoah Banful
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp00855.pdf |
| 3:55-4:35 | Paper 7 | Which factors influence of internal revenue generation by local governments? Empirical evidence from Ghana
Tewodaj Mogues, Sam Benin and Godsway Cudjoe |
| 4:35-4:50 | Coffee Break |
| 4:50-5:30 | Paper 8 | How do reservation policies influence inter-village public resource allocation? Evidence from Karnataka
Nethra Palaniswamy and Nandi Krishnan
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp00834.pdf |
| 5:30-6:10 | Paper 9 | How do local power structures influence inter-village public resource allocation in China: The role of elected village leaders and appointed party secretaries.
Xiaobo Zhang and co-authors |
| Dinner |
| Thursday 4 February |
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| 9.00-10.00 | Keynote Paper | James Manor |
Session 3: Interactions between rural citizens and their governments |
| 10.00-10.45 | Paper 10 | Choice and Recognition: Analyzing Democracy Effects of Sectoral Decentralization
Jesse Ribot
Alternatively: Film by Jesse Ribot (to be decided) |
| 10.45-11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00-11.45 | Paper 11 | Political Capture of Decentralization: Vote-Buying through Grants-Financed Local Jurisdictions
Stuti Khemani |
| 11:45-12:30 | Paper 12 | Firm-government relations Chinese style: The impact of firms’ network relations to local government on economic performance in rural China
Jianping Han and Christian Henning
Alternatively (to be decided): The impact of social networks and voter behavior and local government performance: Empirical evidence from Poland and Slovakia
Susumu Shikano and Christian Henning |
| 12:30-1:00 | Lunch Break |
| 1:00-2:00 | Paper 13 | Is reservation of seats in local councils an effective tool to make local governments more responsive to the needs of marginalized groups and women? Evidence from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka
Kiran Gajawani and Xiaobo Zhang; Katharina Raabe, Madhushree Sekher and Regina Birner
(This session will feature two papers)
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp00807.pdf
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp00878.pdf |
| 2:00-2:40 | Paper 14 | Do geography and ethnic diversity matter for rural service provision? Evidence from rural Ghana
Kamiljon Akramov and Felix Asante
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/gsspwp16.pdf |
| 2:40-3:30 | Coffee Break (Time for setting up conference room for larger audience) |
| 3:30-5:30 | Panel Discussion | Policy Roundtable: Decentralization – Which is the way forward?
with keynote speakers and representatives from development organizations
open to the public |
| 5:30 | Reception |
