Join us for a talk with Kelly Zhang, a third year PhD candidate at Stanford University, discussing their pilot field experiment on how variation in the content of an information campaign can impact political behaviour in villages. The first intervention provides a report card detailing politician spending in constituency development projects, to see if villagers respond to unaccounted for money in locally visible projects. The second intervention couples the report card with a public participation flyer, to see if information about legal rights and decision-making processes is necessary for citizens to use the report card to take action. Political knowledge and attitudes appear unaffected by the materials, and the report card itself appears insufficient to impact behaviour. Only when the report card is coupled with information about potential ways to participate, is there an overall increase in the local monitoring of public goods. The findings suggest that information campaigns can potentially prompt citizens with political connections to monitor a politician’s performance in local development projects, even outside of election years.