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A review of the political economy of governance: from property rights to voice 0 0 0 530 0 0 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 1 109 1 1 4 432
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 2 2 2 781
Checks and balances, private information, and the credibility of monetary commitments 0 0 0 106 0 0 1 970
Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy 0 0 0 125 1 1 2 423
Contract Intensive Money 0 1 4 294 1 2 26 1,435
Curbing Grand Corruption in the Contracting Out of Public Services: Lessons from a Pilot Study of the School Meals Program in Colombia 0 0 2 10 0 1 6 24
Democracy, Democratic Consolidation and Military Spending 0 1 1 5 0 2 2 43
Democracy, credibility and clientelism 1 1 1 450 2 2 6 1,199
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor 0 0 0 268 1 1 9 661
Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? 0 0 3 269 1 2 7 556
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 0 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 0 94 0 1 1 254
Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations 0 0 1 9 0 2 8 18
Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? 0 0 1 11 0 1 5 76
General Skills Training for Public Employees: Experimental Evidence on Cybersecurity Training in Argentina 0 0 4 4 0 0 7 7
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 3 32
Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying 0 0 3 18 2 4 16 164
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 0 2 16 756 2 8 36 1,715
Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies 0 0 0 93 0 2 3 265
Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 2 77 0 0 12 228
It's not all fun and games: Feedback, task motivation, and effort 0 0 0 82 0 1 6 113
Love the Job... or the Patient?: Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care 0 1 1 40 0 2 2 57
Love the job... or the patient ? task vs. mission-based motivations in health care 0 0 2 8 0 0 3 59
Love the job... or the patient? Task vs. mission-based motiviations in healthcare 0 0 0 27 1 3 4 84
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 1 2 45 0 2 7 153
Mass media and public services: the effects of radio access on public education in Benin 1 1 2 88 2 4 10 318
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 0 0 3 710 1 7 27 2,240
Organizing for prosperity: collective action, political parties and the political economy of development 0 0 0 80 0 0 1 145
Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality 0 0 0 16 0 0 4 79
Party age and party color: new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality 0 0 0 96 0 1 2 217
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 1 1 10 687 1 5 35 2,110
Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries 0 0 1 7 3 3 9 24
Political Parties, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Reform 0 0 1 8 0 2 5 56
Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties 0 0 0 47 0 1 1 95
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: the Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 237 0 0 1 686
Promises, promises: vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians 0 0 1 59 0 0 2 141
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 1 2 8 394
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 0 16 0 2 2 94
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 1 4 0 1 7 63
Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 1 59 1 1 5 241
Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits 0 0 0 41 2 3 6 125
Social Trust and Electoral Populism: Explaining the Quality of Government 0 0 1 7 1 1 4 31
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 1 4 6 299 2 5 14 964
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 0 3 534
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 32
The development impact of the illegality of drug trade 0 0 0 232 0 1 1 508
The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa 0 0 0 87 0 0 2 195
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 0 23 1 23 26 64
Vote Buying or Campaign Promises?: Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited 0 0 0 29 0 1 10 84
Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending 0 0 1 10 0 0 3 26
Voter Responses to Fiscal Crisis: New Evidence on Preferences for Fiscal Adjustment in Emerging Markets 0 0 1 4 0 0 3 8
Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement: Evidence from a General Election 0 0 1 5 1 1 5 12
What does political economy tell us about economic development - and vice versa? 0 0 3 399 0 3 14 934
When do Legislators pass on"Pork"? the determinants of legislator utilization of a constituency development fund in India 0 0 2 96 0 0 5 226
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 5 890
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers 1 1 2 18 1 1 4 95
Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America 0 0 0 5 0 1 3 18
Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 191
Total Working Papers 5 14 83 7,765 31 111 414 23,511


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An experimental test of gaming incentives 0 0 2 2 0 0 6 6
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 1 2 12 211 7 11 29 560
Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates 0 0 7 21 3 9 31 86
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments 0 0 0 15 0 0 2 113
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies 0 0 4 13 3 3 22 66
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 213
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 6
Comment on "Evaluating Recipes for Development Success": The Policy Usefulness of Institutional and Political Analyses of Development 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 109
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 0 687 0 0 3 2,186
Demand-side determinants of public spending allocations: Voter trust, risk and time preferences 0 0 0 8 0 1 9 47
Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services 0 0 0 1 1 2 12 481
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 2 7 64 547 14 30 176 5,634
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention 0 0 0 35 2 5 6 152
Elections, Special Interests, and Financial Crisis 0 0 0 57 0 1 2 172
Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations 0 0 2 2 1 3 21 25
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 2 6 52 1,337 11 26 149 3,789
Institutions really don't matter for development? A response to Chang 0 0 0 70 0 1 5 146
Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 41 0 0 2 135
Introduction to the special issue: In memoriam Stephen Knack 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 24
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies 0 0 6 91 3 8 27 347
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 4 4 2 6 33 38
Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin 0 0 2 102 0 0 5 469
Media’s Influence on Citizen Demand for Public Goods 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
New Tools in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions 0 0 4 5 0 2 10 14
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 3 204 0 0 9 647
Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service 1 1 2 110 2 3 9 351
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 4 7 20 995
Protection Against a Capricious State: French Investment and Spanish Railroads, 1845–1875 0 0 0 15 0 1 2 55
Pyramid capitalism: Cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 1 2 3 20 5 8 16 82
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 0 9 0 2 3 65
The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy 0 3 6 21 1 5 17 62
The use of video vignettes to measure health worker knowledge. Evidence from Burkina Faso 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 37
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program 0 3 9 10 1 5 37 41
Vote buying and campaign promises 0 0 0 24 0 1 10 109
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Voting in Firms: The Role of Agenda Control, Size and Voter Homogeneity 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 180
When Do Legislators Pass on Pork? The Role of Political Parties in Determining Legislator Effort 1 1 1 8 1 1 1 22
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 3 5 39 2,562
Younger parties, bigger spenders? Party age and political budget cycles 0 0 0 40 0 2 7 183
Total Journal Articles 8 25 183 3,741 66 152 738 20,264


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 0 3 75 3 6 18 350
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs 0 0 4 30 2 4 38 242
Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa 1 2 3 22 1 2 10 109
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3
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 1 36 1 4 9 112
Total Books 1 2 11 163 8 17 77 816


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Primer on Trust: Measures and Determinants 0 0 3 5 0 0 4 8
Collective action and government: still a mystery 0 0 2 10 0 0 7 29
Formal versus informal institutions in economic development 1 1 25 531 4 6 42 1,215
Institutions: Mitigating Mistrust 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6
Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations 0 0 0 5 0 1 3 29
Navigating a Sea of Mistrust 1 1 1 1 2 4 6 7
Organization, Citizenship, and the Social Contract 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 4
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 12
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: The Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 77 0 0 0 454
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 20
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 3 5 16 65
The Power of Information 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 4
Trust and the Economy 0 0 0 5 0 3 12 26
Trust and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Trust, Citizenship, and the Making of Good Public Policy 1 2 4 6 1 2 5 12
Trust, Social Cohesion, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 0 3 10 0 2 22 52
Total Chapters 3 4 40 652 10 26 136 1,945
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