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A review of the political economy of governance: from property rights to voice 0 0 1 531 1 8 15 1,130
Assessing Political Commitment to Fighting Corruption 0 0 0 7 0 3 4 33
Beyond legal origin and checks and balances: political credibility, citizen information, and financial sector development 0 0 0 109 0 1 9 440
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 0 1 23 802
Checks and balances, private information, and the credibility of monetary commitments 0 0 0 106 2 5 14 984
Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy 0 0 0 125 1 6 18 440
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 1 294 0 4 21 1,454
Curbing Grand Corruption in the Contracting Out of Public Services: Lessons from a Pilot Study of the School Meals Program in Colombia 0 0 1 11 0 2 7 30
Democracy, Democratic Consolidation and Military Spending 0 0 1 5 0 7 15 56
Democracy, credibility and clientelism 0 0 3 452 1 3 19 1,216
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor 0 0 10 278 0 4 30 690
Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? 0 0 1 270 0 5 27 581
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 3 16 203
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 0 4 12 238
Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention 0 0 0 57 0 2 7 180
Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis 0 0 0 94 1 3 12 265
Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations 0 0 1 10 0 0 7 23
Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? 0 1 1 12 0 3 11 86
General Skills Training for Public Employees: Experimental Evidence on Cybersecurity Training in Argentina 0 0 0 4 1 9 26 33
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 0 1 6 37
Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying 1 1 2 20 4 6 23 183
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 0 2 10 764 1 7 35 1,742
Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies 0 1 1 94 0 2 10 273
Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 1 78 1 2 13 241
It's not all fun and games: Feedback, task motivation, and effort 0 0 0 82 0 0 5 117
Love the Job... or the Patient?: Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care 0 0 1 40 0 2 17 72
Love the job... or the patient ? task vs. mission-based motivations in health care 0 0 0 8 0 3 27 86
Love the job... or the patient? Task vs. mission-based motiviations in healthcare 0 0 0 27 1 6 22 103
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 1 45 0 4 18 169
Mass media and public services: the effects of radio access on public education in Benin 0 1 2 89 0 4 17 331
Mellowing with tenure? Socialization increases prosocial behavior in public organizations 0 0 0 23 0 2 6 70
New tools and new tests in comparative political economy - the database of political institutions 1 2 4 714 4 10 52 2,285
Organizing for prosperity: collective action, political parties and the political economy of development 0 0 1 81 2 8 20 165
Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality 0 0 0 16 0 2 4 83
Party age and party color: new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality 0 0 0 96 0 1 8 224
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 0 3 689 1 3 27 2,132
Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries 0 0 0 7 0 0 12 33
Political Parties, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Reform 0 0 1 9 0 5 21 75
Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties 0 0 0 47 0 7 20 114
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: the Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 237 0 1 7 693
Promises, promises: vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians 0 0 0 59 1 3 4 145
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 1 107 0 4 18 410
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 2 18 0 7 20 112
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 2 6 1 10 27 89
Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 0 59 0 5 23 263
Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits 0 0 0 41 0 2 9 131
Social Trust and Electoral Populism: Explaining the Quality of Government 0 0 0 7 1 6 18 48
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 1 2 8 303 7 24 60 1,019
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 3 7 541
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru 0 1 2 10 0 2 13 45
The development impact of the illegality of drug trade 0 0 0 232 0 1 13 520
The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa 0 0 0 87 0 1 8 203
The organization of political parties and the politics of bureaucratic reform 0 0 0 36 0 3 16 144
Trust, Collaboration, and Policy Attitudes in the Public Sector 0 0 0 23 0 1 33 74
Vote Buying or Campaign Promises?: Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited 0 0 0 29 2 6 18 101
Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending 0 0 1 11 0 5 14 40
Voter Responses to Fiscal Crisis: New Evidence on Preferences for Fiscal Adjustment in Emerging Markets 0 0 3 7 0 1 11 19
Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement: Evidence from a General Election 0 0 0 5 1 8 18 29
What does political economy tell us about economic development - and vice versa? 0 0 0 399 0 3 13 944
When do Legislators pass on"Pork"? the determinants of legislator utilization of a constituency development fund in India 0 0 1 97 0 2 6 232
When do special interests run rampant ? disentangling the role in banking crises of elections, incomplete information, and checks and balances 0 0 1 122 1 3 14 903
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers 0 0 1 18 0 7 32 126
Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America 0 0 1 6 2 6 16 33
Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict 0 0 1 76 0 1 8 199
Total Working Papers 3 11 71 7,822 37 263 1,082 24,482


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An experimental test of gaming incentives 0 0 2 4 1 3 23 29
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 1 1 5 214 2 6 46 595
Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates 0 2 3 24 0 5 20 97
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments 0 0 0 15 1 4 8 121
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies 1 1 4 17 2 9 36 99
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 1 3 0 0 8 14
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 0 2 4 23 236
Comment on "Evaluating Recipes for Development Success": The Policy Usefulness of Institutional and Political Analyses of Development 0 0 0 19 0 3 9 118
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 2 689 0 2 21 2,207
Demand-side determinants of public spending allocations: Voter trust, risk and time preferences 0 0 3 11 2 3 24 70
Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services 0 0 0 1 1 9 23 502
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 3 9 40 580 18 54 192 5,796
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention 0 0 0 35 1 2 21 168
Elections, Special Interests, and Financial Crisis 0 0 0 57 0 1 6 177
Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations 0 0 1 3 3 7 28 50
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 3 12 41 1,372 8 46 273 4,036
Institutions really don't matter for development? A response to Chang 0 0 2 72 0 4 12 157
Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies 0 1 2 43 0 2 6 141
Introduction to the special issue: In memoriam Stephen Knack 0 0 0 2 1 5 14 37
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies 0 1 5 96 2 15 42 381
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 1 2 6 0 8 36 68
Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin 0 0 1 103 0 1 11 480
Media’s Influence on Citizen Demand for Public Goods 0 1 1 1 0 3 7 7
New Tools in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions 0 0 2 7 2 7 34 46
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 1 2 3 207 1 5 21 668
Policy misperceptions, information, and the demand for redistributive tax reform: experimental evidence from Latin America 0 0 2 2 0 1 11 11
Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 1 3 112 2 8 26 374
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 2 5 26 1,014
Protection Against a Capricious State: French Investment and Spanish Railroads, 1845–1875 0 0 0 15 0 1 9 63
Pyramid capitalism: Cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 3 8 26 3 9 48 122
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 1 4 9 61
The Government Response to Informed Citizens: New Evidence on Media Access and the Distribution of Public Health Benefits in Africa 0 0 1 10 1 2 10 73
The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy 0 0 4 22 0 0 20 77
The use of video vignettes to measure health worker knowledge. Evidence from Burkina Faso 0 0 0 3 0 2 9 46
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program 1 2 7 14 1 11 44 80
Vote buying and campaign promises 1 1 4 28 2 9 23 131
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election 0 0 1 1 0 3 25 25
Voting in Firms: The Role of Agenda Control, Size and Voter Homogeneity 0 0 0 0 1 2 13 193
When Do Legislators Pass on Pork? The Role of Political Parties in Determining Legislator Effort 1 2 3 10 1 5 26 47
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 0 6 41 2,598
Younger parties, bigger spenders? Party age and political budget cycles 0 1 1 41 0 5 18 199
Total Journal Articles 12 41 154 3,870 61 281 1,302 21,414


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Better Governments for Better Lives: Strengthening State Capacities for Strategic, Meritocratic, and Inclusive Management of the Civil Service in Latin America and the Caribbean 1 5 13 13 3 12 46 55
Better Spending for Better Lives: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Do More with Less 0 0 0 75 3 18 102 446
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs 0 0 0 30 0 6 22 260
Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa 0 0 3 23 0 3 12 119
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 9
Trust: The Key to Social Cohesion and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 0 0 36 1 3 14 122
Total Books 1 5 16 177 7 43 210 1,018


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Primer on Trust: Measures and Determinants 0 0 0 5 1 4 10 18
Collective action and government: still a mystery 0 0 1 11 0 2 6 35
Formal versus informal institutions in economic development 1 7 13 543 3 19 40 1,249
Institutions: Mitigating Mistrust 0 0 0 0 1 6 15 21
Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations 0 0 0 5 0 4 10 38
Navigating a Sea of Mistrust 0 0 1 1 0 3 14 17
Organization, Citizenship, and the Social Contract 0 0 0 1 0 3 9 13
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 16
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: The Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 77 0 1 8 462
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 1 0 7 32 92
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 4 14 34
The Power of Information 0 0 0 1 0 5 15 19
Trust and the Economy 0 0 0 5 0 4 14 37
Trust and the New Institutional Economics 0 1 1 1 2 4 12 12
Trust, Citizenship, and the Making of Good Public Policy 0 0 2 6 0 4 14 24
Trust, Social Cohesion, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 1 1 3 13 3 10 24 74
Total Chapters 2 9 22 670 10 82 242 2,161
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