Knowledge@SMU
Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
9-2010
Abstract
It is widely accepted that governments are likelier to cater to majority needs. However, history has shown, time and again, that unhappy minorities are a force to be reckoned with. Inequality, on top of an absence of channels by which people may voice their needs and discontent, will motivate insurrections – especially if the dissenting minorities are concentrated within the country's capital city. According to a study conducted by assistant professors Do Quoc-Anh and Filipe Campante from SMU and Harvard University respectively, an "honest", accountable government may have just as much to do with geography as it does with leadership. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disciplines
Law
Copyright Owner and Holder
Copyright © Singapore Management University 2012
Licece/Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Article ID
1310
Subject(s)
Law and Public Policy
Citation
Knowledge@SMU.
Proximity to Power: How people keep governments honest. (2010).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/229