Replication Data for: Precolonial Legacies and Institutional Congruence in Public Goods Delivery: Evidence from Decentralized West Africa
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Scholars have long identified political bias in how African politicians distribute state resources. Though much of this literature focuses on the role of group identities, centrally ethnicity and partisanship, this article shifts focus to local governments, increasingly important players in basic social service provision, to argue that public goods allocation under democratic decentralization is intimately shaped by historical identities. Specifically, I highlight the role of identities rooted in the precolonial past. To explain this, the article articulates a theory of institutional congruence, arguing that greater spatial overlap between formal institutional space and informal social identities improves the ability of elites to overcome local coordination problems. Looking to the West African state of Senegal, I deploy a nested analys' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["Decentralization","Public Goods Provision","Senegal"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Scholars have long identified political bias in how African politicians distribute state resources. Though much of this literature focuses on the role of group identities, centrally ethnicity and partisanship, this article shifts focus to local governments, increasingly important players in basic social service provision, to argue that public goods allocation under democratic decentralization is intimately shaped by historical identities. Specifically, I highlight the role of identities rooted in the precolonial past. To explain this, the article articulates a theory of institutional congruence, arguing that greater spatial overlap between formal institutional space and informal social identities improves the ability of elites to overcome local coordination problems. Looking to the West African state of Senegal, I deploy a nested analys' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
Scholars have long identified political bias in how African politicians distribute state resources. Though much of this literature focuses on the role of group identities, centrally ethnicity and partisanship, this article shifts focus to local governments, increasingly important players in basic social service provision, to argue that public goods allocation under democratic decentralization is intimately shaped by historical identities. Specifically, I highlight the role of identities rooted in the precolonial past. To explain this, the article articulates a theory of institutional congruence, arguing that greater spatial overlap between formal institutional space and informal social identities improves the ability of elites to overcome local coordination problems. Looking to the West African state of Senegal, I deploy a nested analys
Decentralization; Public Goods Provision; Senegal