Effect of political decentralization and female leadership on institutional births and child mortality in rural Bihar, India

Kumar, Santosh; Prakash, Nishith

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.013

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“…Examining the health sector specifically, Zarychta (2020) finds in Honduras that decentralization improves local health service provision by improving accountability in health centers and making these centers resilient to external shocks. Improvements in health due to decentralization have also been observed in Tanzania and Uganda (Croke 2012), as well as in India (Kumar and Prakash 2017). In health crises, these arguments would predict that greater decentralization allows for expanded legislative capacity to decide what is best for the locality without interference from remote centers of power.…”

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confidence: 99%

Political and Social Correlates of Covid-19 Mortality

Bosancianu¹,

Hilbig²,

Humphreys³

et al. 2020

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Do political and social features of states help explain the evolving distribution of reported Covid-19 deaths? We identify national-level political and social characteristics that past research suggests may help explain variation in a society's ability to respond to adverse shocks. We highlight four sets of arguments---focusing on (1) state capacity, (2) political institutions, (3) political priorities, and (4) social structures---and report on their evolving association with cumulative Covid-19 deaths. After accounting for a simple set of Lasso-chosen controls, we find that measures of government effectiveness, interpersonal and institutional trust, bureaucratic corruption and ethnic fragmentation are currently associated in theory-consistent directions. We do not, however, find associations between deaths and many other political and social variables that have received attention in public discussions, such as populist governments or women-led governments. Currently, the results suggest that state capacity is more important for explaining Covid-19 mortality than government accountability to citizens, with potential implications for how the disease progresses in high-income versus low-income countries. These patterns may change over time with the evolution of the pandemic, however. A dashboard with daily updates, extensions, and code is provided at https://wzb-ipi.github.io/corona/.

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Section: Centralized Decision-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political and Social Correlates of Covid-19 Mortality

Bosancianu¹,

Hilbig²,

Humphreys³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…Women politicians have different concerns with male politicians, they tend to pay attention to the social needs of public services such as public health rather than issues surrounding the defense of power. A number of research findings in some countries, such as the United States, suggest that the high number of women's political representation in parliament is related to the lack of infant mortality in the United States in the period 1990-2012 and also in the Indian Bihar area attributed to women politicians' concern in promoting the progress of public health [11,12]. Then, the life satisfaction / quality of life is high in countries with high women's political representation because one of the indicators used is public health service given priority [13].…”

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The Role of Political Parties in Building Loyalty Women Cadres through Political Education

Hariyanti¹,

Darmawan²,

Masyitoh³

2018

Proceedings of the Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2018)

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This study aims to describe how the role of political parties in building the loyalty of women cadres through political education. Efforts to build the political literacy of women cadres through political education need to be balanced with loyalty to the party in order to strengthen the party system in Indonesia. The development of political parties is determined by the loyalty of the cadres as a factor driving the functions of political parties. This research uses qualitative approach with descriptive method. The research findings show that the party established the loyalty of women cadres through the alignment of political education materials with the vision, mission and platform of the party struggle. Political education aims to shape political personality, political awareness and political participation. Political education plays a role to build cadre loyalty in order to minimize the phenomenon of "Kutu-loncat" politician because politics is solely seen from the point of view of power.

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“…Politisi perempuan memiliki perhatian yang berbeda dengan politisi laki-laki, mereka cenderung memperhatikan kebutuhan-kebutuhan sosial yang sarat akan pelayanan publik seperti kesehatan masyarakat dibanding persoalan seputar pertahanan kekuasaan. Sejumlah hasil penelitian di beberapa negara, seperti di Amerika Serikat menyatakan bahwa tingginya angka representasi politik perempuan di parlemen berhubungan dengan kurangnya angka kematian bayi di Amerika Serikat pada periode 1990-2012, dan juga terjadi di daerah Bihar India disebabkan politisi perempuan fokus dalam mendorong kemajuan kesehatan masyarakat (Homan, 2017;Kumar & Prakash, 2017). Kemudian, angka kepuasan hidup/kualitas hidup terbilang tinggi pada negara-negara dengan representasi politik perempuan yang juga tinggi karena salah satu indikator yang digunakan adalah pelayanan kesehatan masyarakat mendapat prioritas (York & Bell, 2014).…”

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Peran partai politik dalam meningkatkan partisipasi politik kader perempuan melalui pendidikan politik

Hariyanti

Darmawan

Masyitoh

2018

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Partai politik mempunyai kewajiban yuridis dan moral untuk melaksanakan pendidikan politik khususnya memberdayakan kader perempuan di tengah minimnya partisipasi politik perempuan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode deskriptif. Penentuan informan penelitian melalui teknik non probability sampling dengan teknik purposive sampling. Teknik pengujian keabsahan data menggunakan triangulasi sumber data. Temuan penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kendala-kendala pendidikan politik kader perempuan, yakni (1) kendala internal, yang berasal dalam diri kader perempuan; (2) kendala eksternal, stereotip dalam konstruksi sosial budaya masyarakat; (3) keseriusan partai dalam memberdayakan kader perempuan; (4) kelemahan regulasi peraturan perundang-undangan. Partai politik melakukan beberapa upaya untuk mengatasi kendala tersebut melalui pendekatan personal, menggagas konsep tanpa mahar politik; membentuk regulasi internal partai politik yang akomodatif terhadap kebutuhan perempuan.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Political parties have moral as well as juridical obligation to conduct political education especially for women cadres in the low level of political participation among women. It was a qualitative research with descriptive method of explanation. The informant involved was selected with non-probability sampling, purposive sampling. The results reveal the obstacles faced by women cadres are (1) internal obstacles, coming from the cadres themselves; (2) external obstacles, coming from stereotype upholding by among cultural and society members; (3) the seriousness of political party to empower their own women cadres; (4) the weakness of the law concerning this issue. To overcome the problems, political parties is doing effort such as personal approach, politic without political ‘bride price’ (mahar politik), issuing internal regulation accommodative to the needs of women.

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Effect of political decentralization and female leadership on institutional births and child mortality in rural Bihar, India

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Political and Social Correlates of Covid-19 Mortality

Political and Social Correlates of Covid-19 Mortality

The Role of Political Parties in Building Loyalty Women Cadres through Political Education

Peran partai politik dalam meningkatkan partisipasi politik kader perempuan melalui pendidikan politik

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