• DOI:10.1017/S0003055412000408
Corpus ID: 59387122

The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: A Field Experiment on Legislative Transparency in an Authoritarian Assembly

@article{Malesky2012TheAE,
  title={The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: A Field Experiment on Legislative Transparency in an Authoritarian Assembly},
  author={Edmund J. Malesky and P. Schuler and A. Tran},
  journal={American Political Science Review},
  year={2012},
  volume={106},
  pages={762 - 786}
}

• Edmund J. Malesky, P. Schuler, A. Tran
• Published 2012
• Economics
• American Political Science Review

An influential literature has demonstrated that legislative transparency can improve the performance of parliamentarians in democracies. In a democracy, the incentive for improved performance is created by voters’ responses to newly available information. Building on this work, donor projects have begun to export transparency interventions to authoritarian regimes under the assumption that nongovernmental organizations and the media can substitute for the incentives created by voters. Such… Expand