@conference {254016,
	title = {Volunteer Spies, Volunteer Bureaucrats: Neighborhood Governance in Indonesia and Around the World},
	booktitle = {Midwest Political Science Association 2015 Conference},
	year = {2015},
	month = {18 Apr},
	address = {Chicago, IL},
	abstract = {In many\&nbsp;developing\&nbsp;countries,\&nbsp;auxiliaries of the formal civil service are organized at the level of a handful of households to carry out administrative tasks. This institutional form is especially common\&nbsp;in, but not limited to, Pacific Asia, where it is\&nbsp;a\&nbsp;legacy of Japanese colonialism. Neighborhood governance\&nbsp;of this kind\&nbsp;is a top-down project designed to direct organizational life to state purposes.\&nbsp;When effective, these systems provide cheap labor to the state,\&nbsp;supplementing\&nbsp;small civil services and security forces\&nbsp;with organized volunteers.\&nbsp;These systems originated in periods of non-democratic rule, but in a number of countries, have continued to function long after democratization.\&nbsp;It is not clear, however, why residents choose to provide this labor in a democratic context.\&nbsp;With evidence from\&nbsp;Indonesia, I find evidence suggesting that the effectiveness of the neighborhood governance system depends on\&nbsp;residents{\textquoteright}\&nbsp;incentives to participate, and that these are\&nbsp;related to\&nbsp;individual characteristics, including age, and community characteristics like residential mobility. I then outline designs for testing\&nbsp;the effects of these characteristics on participation in neighborhood governance, and the effects of neighborhood leadership density on political participation and disaster recovery.\&nbsp;},
	author = {Seth Nathan Soderborg}
}
