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A review of the political economy of governance: from property rights to voice 0 0 0 530 0 1 3 1,115
Assessing Political Commitment to Fighting Corruption 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 29
Beyond legal origin and checks and balances: political credibility, citizen information, and financial sector development 0 0 3 109 0 0 11 430
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 0 0 0 779
Checks and balances, private information, and the credibility of monetary commitments 0 0 0 106 0 1 1 970
Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy 0 0 0 125 0 0 2 422
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 6 291 1 10 27 1,428
Curbing Grand Corruption in the Contracting Out of Public Services: Lessons from a Pilot Study of the School Meals Program in Colombia 0 1 1 9 0 2 3 21
Democracy, Democratic Consolidation and Military Spending 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 41
Democracy, credibility and clientelism 0 0 2 449 0 1 7 1,197
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor 0 0 3 268 0 1 13 656
Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? 0 0 2 268 0 0 4 551
Do informed citizens receive more...or pay more ? the impact of radio on the government distribution of public health benefits 0 0 0 75 0 0 2 187
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 2 60 0 1 3 226
Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention 0 0 0 57 0 0 0 173
Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis 0 0 1 94 0 0 1 253
Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations 0 0 1 9 0 0 6 14
Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? 0 0 1 11 0 2 4 75
General Skills Training for Public Employees: Experimental Evidence on Cybersecurity Training in Argentina 0 0 4 4 0 0 6 6
How Capital Projects are Allocated in Papua New Guinean Villages: The Influence of Local Collective Action, Local-level Institutions, and Electoral Politics 0 0 0 11 1 1 1 30
Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying 0 1 1 16 0 3 12 158
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 3 6 12 751 5 10 27 1,701
Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies 0 0 0 93 0 0 2 262
Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 2 76 2 6 12 226
It's not all fun and games: Feedback, task motivation, and effort 0 0 0 82 0 2 5 111
Love the Job... or the Patient?: Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care 0 0 0 39 0 0 0 55
Love the job... or the patient ? task vs. mission-based motivations in health care 0 1 2 8 0 1 3 59
Love the job... or the patient? Task vs. mission-based motiviations in healthcare 0 0 0 27 0 0 1 81
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 1 2 44 0 3 9 151
Mass media and public services: the effects of radio access on public education in Benin 1 1 2 87 1 3 6 312
Mellowing with tenure? Socialization increases prosocial behavior in public organizations 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 64
New tools and new tests in comparative political economy - the database of political institutions 1 2 11 710 1 6 37 2,231
Organizing for prosperity: collective action, political parties and the political economy of development 0 0 0 80 0 1 1 145
Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality 0 0 1 16 1 2 3 77
Party age and party color: new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality 0 0 1 96 0 1 2 216
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 1 4 10 683 10 17 39 2,097
Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries 0 0 1 7 2 2 10 21
Political Parties, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Reform 0 0 1 8 0 0 4 54
Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties 0 0 0 47 0 0 1 94
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: the Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 237 0 0 2 686
Promises, promises: vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians 0 0 0 58 0 1 1 140
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 1 106 1 3 11 392
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 2 4 0 0 9 62
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 92
Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 1 3 59 0 1 9 239
Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits 0 0 0 41 0 0 2 120
Social Trust and Electoral Populism: Explaining the Quality of Government 0 0 1 7 1 2 4 30
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 293 1 3 11 956
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 1 5 533
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru 0 0 2 8 0 0 2 32
The development impact of the illegality of drug trade 0 0 1 232 0 0 2 507
The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa 0 0 0 87 0 1 1 194
The organization of political parties and the politics of bureaucratic reform 0 0 0 36 0 0 1 128
Trust, Collaboration, and Policy Attitudes in the Public Sector 0 0 1 23 0 1 4 40
Vote Buying or Campaign Promises?: Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited 0 0 0 29 3 5 10 83
Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending 0 0 3 10 0 0 6 26
Voter Responses to Fiscal Crisis: New Evidence on Preferences for Fiscal Adjustment in Emerging Markets 0 1 4 4 1 2 8 8
Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement: Evidence from a General Election 0 1 2 5 0 1 7 11
What does political economy tell us about economic development - and vice versa? 0 0 1 397 0 0 4 922
When do Legislators pass on"Pork"? the determinants of legislator utilization of a constituency development fund in India 0 1 1 95 0 2 6 224
When do special interests run rampant ? disentangling the role in banking crises of elections, incomplete information, and checks and balances 0 0 0 121 0 1 4 888
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers 0 0 1 17 0 0 1 92
Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America 0 0 2 5 0 1 7 17
Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 191
Total Working Papers 6 21 98 7,732 31 102 385 23,331


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An experimental test of gaming incentives 1 1 2 2 1 5 6 6
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 2 4 7 206 2 5 12 540
Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates 1 2 7 19 3 6 27 74
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments 0 0 0 15 1 1 2 112
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies 0 2 3 12 1 10 18 59
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 5
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 212
Comment on "Evaluating Recipes for Development Success": The Policy Usefulness of Institutional and Political Analyses of Development 0 0 1 19 0 0 2 109
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 1 687 0 1 6 2,185
Demand-side determinants of public spending allocations: Voter trust, risk and time preferences 0 0 1 8 0 2 11 46
Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services 0 0 0 1 0 0 12 475
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 3 10 67 536 4 18 169 5,579
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention 0 0 0 35 0 0 2 147
Elections, Special Interests, and Financial Crisis 0 0 0 57 0 0 1 171
Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations 0 0 1 1 2 5 17 17
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 5 12 76 1,322 13 30 182 3,728
Institutions really don't matter for development? A response to Chang 0 0 0 70 0 0 3 144
Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 41 0 1 2 134
Introduction to the special issue: In memoriam Stephen Knack 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 22
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies 1 2 8 90 2 6 26 335
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 2 3 3 3 12 31 31
Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin 1 1 2 101 1 1 9 467
Media’s Influence on Citizen Demand for Public Goods 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
New Tools in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions 0 0 4 4 1 1 8 9
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 6 204 2 4 22 646
Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 4 109 0 0 10 346
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 2 5 16 986
Protection Against a Capricious State: French Investment and Spanish Railroads, 1845–1875 0 0 0 15 0 1 1 54
Pyramid capitalism: Cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 2 18 1 5 12 72
Reforma y Fraude Fiscal en el Reinado de Carlos II: La Sala de Millones (1658–1700). By Beatriz Cárceles de Gea. Servicio de Estudios, Estudios de Historia Económica, No. 31. Madrid: Banco de Españna, 1995. Pp. 154 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 52
The Government Response to Informed Citizens: New Evidence on Media Access and the Distribution of Public Health Benefits in Africa 0 0 1 9 0 1 2 63
The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy 0 0 4 18 0 0 15 55
The use of video vignettes to measure health worker knowledge. Evidence from Burkina Faso 0 0 0 3 1 2 2 37
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program 3 4 7 7 3 17 34 34
Vote buying and campaign promises 0 0 2 24 0 1 12 105
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Voting in Firms: The Role of Agenda Control, Size and Voter Homogeneity 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 178
When Do Legislators Pass on Pork? The Role of Political Parties in Determining Legislator Effort 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 21
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 2 11 30 2,541
Younger parties, bigger spenders? Party age and political budget cycles 0 0 1 40 0 1 5 179
Total Journal Articles 17 40 212 3,692 45 152 730 19,976


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Better Spending for Better Lives: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Do More with Less 0 2 6 75 3 7 25 344
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs 0 1 5 30 3 5 46 234
Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa 1 1 2 20 3 6 13 106
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trust: The Key to Social Cohesion and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 0 2 35 2 2 8 107
Total Books 1 4 15 160 11 20 92 792


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Primer on Trust: Measures and Determinants 1 1 1 3 1 2 3 6
Collective action and government: still a mystery 0 0 1 9 1 2 7 28
Formal versus informal institutions in economic development 9 12 25 526 9 17 34 1,200
Institutions: Mitigating Mistrust 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 6
Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 28
Navigating a Sea of Mistrust 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3
Organization, Citizenship, and the Social Contract 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 10
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: The Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 77 0 0 1 454
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 4 15 58
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 18
The Power of Information 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 4
Trust and the Economy 0 0 3 5 0 2 14 20
Trust and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trust, Citizenship, and the Making of Good Public Policy 0 0 3 3 0 0 5 9
Trust, Social Cohesion, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 1 1 8 10 1 5 38 46
Total Chapters 11 14 42 639 14 41 141 1,892
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