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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- © 2023 by the Midwest Political Science Association.
- ISSN
- 0092-5853
- eISSN
- 1540-5907
- DOI
- 10.1111/ajps.12787
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Transparency is expected to strengthen electoral accountability. Yet, initiatives disseminating politician performance information directly prior to elections have reported mixed results. We argue that to be effective, transparency needs to be sustained: The dissemination of politician performance information needs to occur early, regularly, and predictably throughout the term. Using a formal model of electoral accountability under nonprogrammatic and uneven party competition, we study how sustained transparency affects a string of decisions by various actors in advance of elections: incumbents' running choices, parties' nomination strategies, and potential challengers' entry decisions. We show how these effects shape the candidate slate and ultimately electoral outcomes, conditional on incumbent performance and the incumbent party's relative strength. We test our theory using a field experiment involving 354 subnational constituencies in Uganda, and find robust support for the idea that sustained transparency can improve electoral accountability even in weakly institutionalized electoral settings.
Journal
American Journal of Political Science – Wiley
Published: May 12, 2023