@article{162861,
  author = {Brandon de la Cuesta and Lucy Martin and Helen V. Milner and Daniel L. Nielson},
  title = {Owning It: Accountability and Citizens{\textquoteright} Ownership over Oil, Aid, and Taxes},
  abstract = {<p>Government accountability is severely lacking in many developing countries, yet we know relatively little about the causal dynamics that produce citizen demands for greater responsiveness. We argue that a sense of ownership over public money heightens expectations for government services and induces expressive demands for accountability, and we apply the new theory in sub-Saharan Africa. Results from a series of lab-in-the-field experiments in Uganda and Ghana and from a nationally representative survey-based field experiment in Uganda all demonstrate that higher feelings of ownership over public revenues significantly increase citizens{\textquoteright} accountability pressures on leaders. Furthermore, simple interventions can significantly increase feelings of revenue ownership over oil and aid windfalls, producing demands for accountability indistinguishable from taxes.</p>
},
  year = {2022},
  journal = {The Journal of Politics},
  volume = {84},
  pages = {304-320},
  url = {https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/714929},
  doi = {10.1086/714929},
  language = {eng},
}