The Emergence of Pork-Barrel Politics in Parliamentary Myanmar / / Renaud Egreteau.

In 2014 Myanmar introduced a constituency development fund (CDF) to sponsor small public works and development projects in each of the country's 330 electoral constituencies. As a form of "pork-barrel" spending, CDF programmes have long remained controversial among international donor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (23 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • FOREWORD
  • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • INTRODUCTION
  • WHAT IS PORK-BARREL POLITICS?
  • INTRODUCING CDFs IN POST-JUNTA MYANMAR
  • THE DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS TO CONSTITUENTS: SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE SINCE 2014
  • CDFs AND CORRUPTION
  • CDFs AND THE CLIENTELIZATION OF POLITICS
  • CONCLUSION: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
  • REFERENCES