Political trust and informal traders in African cities
How do cities foster political trust among informal workers? This question is particularly salient in Africa's growing cities where local governments must reconcile policy priorities across highly heterogeneous constituencies, including a burgeoning middle-class and a large informal economy. We argu...
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| author | Resnick, Danielle Sivasubramanian, Bhavna |
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| description | How do cities foster political trust among informal workers? This question is particularly salient in Africa's growing cities where local governments must reconcile policy priorities across highly heterogeneous constituencies, including a burgeoning middle-class and a large informal economy. We argue that expectations about reciprocity and procedural justice shape the probability that informal traders trust their local government. In doing so, we analyse a survey of approximately 1000 informal traders in Ghana's three main cities – Accra, Kumasi and Tamale. We find that traders who paid requisite fees to local assemblies and could attribute a benefit from those payments were more likely to trust their local government while those who had experienced harassment by city authorities were less likely to do so. The paper highlights that drivers of trust among diverse urban constituencies deserve greater empirical and comparative attention, especially as countries deepen decentralisation initiatives and cities commit to development goals around inclusivity. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1399722025-10-26T13:02:01Z Political trust and informal traders in African cities Resnick, Danielle Sivasubramanian, Bhavna urban areas capacity development economics government towns How do cities foster political trust among informal workers? This question is particularly salient in Africa's growing cities where local governments must reconcile policy priorities across highly heterogeneous constituencies, including a burgeoning middle-class and a large informal economy. We argue that expectations about reciprocity and procedural justice shape the probability that informal traders trust their local government. In doing so, we analyse a survey of approximately 1000 informal traders in Ghana's three main cities – Accra, Kumasi and Tamale. We find that traders who paid requisite fees to local assemblies and could attribute a benefit from those payments were more likely to trust their local government while those who had experienced harassment by city authorities were less likely to do so. The paper highlights that drivers of trust among diverse urban constituencies deserve greater empirical and comparative attention, especially as countries deepen decentralisation initiatives and cities commit to development goals around inclusivity. 2023-09 2024-03-14T12:08:47Z 2024-03-14T12:08:47Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139972 en Limited Access Cambridge University Press Resnick, Danielle; and Sivasubramanian, Bhavna. 2023. Journal of Modern African Studies 61(3): 389 - 412. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X23000125 |
| spellingShingle | urban areas capacity development economics government towns Resnick, Danielle Sivasubramanian, Bhavna Political trust and informal traders in African cities |
| title | Political trust and informal traders in African cities |
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| title_short | Political trust and informal traders in African cities |
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| topic | urban areas capacity development economics government towns |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139972 |
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