Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

This paper presents an experiment where 48 Indonesian villages were randomly assigned to choose development projects through either representative-based meetings or direct election-based plebiscites. Plebiscites resulted in dramatically higher satisfaction among villagers, increased knowledge about

本文开展了一项实验，将48个印度尼西亚村庄随机分组，分别通过基于代表的会议或基于直选的公民投票两种方式选定发展项目。结果显示，公民投票模式下村民的满意度显著提升，对相关内容的认知水平也有所提高。