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Searching with a thematic focus on Governance Assessments, Governance, Assessing areas of governance, Local governance & decentralization, Regional initiatives of assessing governance, Latin America and Caribbean

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    Motivating politicians: the impacts of monetary incentives on quality and performance

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2010
    Governments that guarantee property rights and fight corruption are said to have the right incentives for economic prosperity. However, what determines the quality of government is less understood. This paper examines whether salaries of local politicians of Brazil's municipal governments affect legislative performance, political competition, and the types of politicians that run for office.
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    Electoral accountability and corruption: evidence from the audits of local governments

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009
    Political institutions can affect corruption. The researcher uses audit reports from an anti-corruption programme in Brazil to construct new measures of political corruption in local governments and test whether electoral accountability affects the corruption practices of incumbent politicians.
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    Sanctions, benefits, and rights: three faces of accountability

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010
    As countries throughout the world democratise and decentralise, citizen participation in public life should increase. It is said citizens in a decentralised and democratic system of government are governed better because they can punish electorally those who do not deliver on promises.
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    Governing the metropolis: principles and cases

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2008
    This book is based on a study that analysed recent advances in research and practice on the management of metropolitan areas in Latin America. It discusses options to improve democratic governance of the territories under the jurisdiction of diverse sub-national governments and identifies different ways to tackle the fiscal problems they face.