Mumbai Water Access: Field Experiment on Political and Bureaucratic Pressure

Mumbai's informal settlements are the focus of this factorial field experiment by Anjali Thomas (2026) regarding municipal water access. The data records outcomes from bureaucratic facilitation drives and bottom-up political coordination campaigns targeting elected officials.

Use Cases

• Measuring the success rate of municipal water connections following a bureaucratic facilitation drive
• Comparing service delivery outcomes between policy-eligible settlements and those receiving political coordination campaigns
• Analyzing the strategic interactions between citizens and bureaucrats during the petitioning stage of formalization

Strengths

• Factorial field experiment design
• Primary data from Mumbai's informal settlements
• Expert-led study published via the American Journal of Political Science Dataverse

Limitations

• Geographic bias toward Mumbai's urban settlements
• Thematic focus is limited to water access and may not generalize to other public services
• Metadata lacks specific column definitions and row counts

Provenance

Source

American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) Dataverse

Collection Method

Field experiment

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Mumbai, India