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A review of the political economy of governance: from property rights to voice 0 0 1 531 5 5 12 1,127
Assessing Political Commitment to Fighting Corruption 0 0 0 7 3 3 4 33
Beyond legal origin and checks and balances: political credibility, citizen information, and financial sector development 0 0 0 109 1 3 10 440
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 1 2 23 802
Checks and balances, private information, and the credibility of monetary commitments 0 0 0 106 2 3 11 981
Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy 0 0 0 125 4 7 16 438
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 3 294 2 6 24 1,452
Curbing Grand Corruption in the Contracting Out of Public Services: Lessons from a Pilot Study of the School Meals Program in Colombia 0 1 2 11 2 3 9 30
Democracy, Democratic Consolidation and Military Spending 0 0 1 5 6 8 14 55
Democracy, credibility and clientelism 0 0 3 452 1 3 17 1,214
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor 0 4 10 278 4 10 34 690
Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? 0 0 2 270 4 5 29 580
Do informed citizens receive more...or pay more ? the impact of radio on the government distribution of public health benefits 0 0 0 75 3 9 16 203
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 3 4 11 237
Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention 0 0 0 57 1 3 6 179
Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis 0 0 0 94 2 3 11 264
Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations 0 0 1 10 0 0 9 23
Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? 0 0 0 11 2 3 10 85
General Skills Training for Public Employees: Experimental Evidence on Cybersecurity Training in Argentina 0 0 0 4 6 11 24 30
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 0 6 36
Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying 0 0 3 19 1 3 20 178
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 2 5 13 764 5 13 39 1,740
Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies 1 1 1 94 2 2 11 273
Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 1 2 78 0 5 13 239
It's not all fun and games: Feedback, task motivation, and effort 0 0 0 82 0 3 6 117
Love the Job... or the Patient?: Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care 0 0 1 40 2 5 17 72
Love the job... or the patient ? task vs. mission-based motivations in health care 0 0 0 8 1 10 25 84
Love the job... or the patient? Task vs. mission-based motiviations in healthcare 0 0 0 27 1 3 17 98
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 1 45 3 4 17 168
Mass media and public services: the effects of radio access on public education in Benin 1 1 2 89 4 7 19 331
Mellowing with tenure? Socialization increases prosocial behavior in public organizations 0 0 0 23 2 4 6 70
New tools and new tests in comparative political economy - the database of political institutions 1 1 3 713 4 8 48 2,279
Organizing for prosperity: collective action, political parties and the political economy of development 0 1 1 81 5 12 17 162
Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality 0 0 0 16 2 2 6 83
Party age and party color: new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality 0 0 0 96 1 2 8 224
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 0 6 689 1 8 33 2,130
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 3 9 19 73
Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties 0 0 0 47 6 7 19 113
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: the Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 237 1 2 7 693
Promises, promises: vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians 0 0 1 59 2 2 4 144
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 1 1 107 4 7 18 410
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 2 2 18 6 9 19 111
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 2 6 8 11 25 87
Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 0 59 5 7 24 263
Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits 0 0 0 41 1 2 10 130
Social Trust and Electoral Populism: Explaining the Quality of Government 0 0 0 7 3 4 15 45
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 1 1 9 302 13 20 52 1,008
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 2 4 7 540
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru 0 0 1 9 1 3 12 44
The development impact of the illegality of drug trade 0 0 0 232 1 5 13 520
The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa 0 0 0 87 0 0 8 202
The organization of political parties and the politics of bureaucratic reform 0 0 0 36 3 8 16 144
Trust, Collaboration, and Policy Attitudes in the Public Sector 0 0 0 23 1 3 34 74
Vote Buying or Campaign Promises?: Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited 0 0 0 29 4 7 16 99
Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending 0 0 1 11 4 7 13 39
Voter Responses to Fiscal Crisis: New Evidence on Preferences for Fiscal Adjustment in Emerging Markets 0 0 3 7 1 2 11 19
Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement: Evidence from a General Election 0 0 0 5 6 9 16 27
What does political economy tell us about economic development - and vice versa? 0 0 2 399 2 4 21 943
When do Legislators pass on"Pork"? the determinants of legislator utilization of a constituency development fund in India 0 1 2 97 2 5 8 232
When do special interests run rampant ? disentangling the role in banking crises of elections, incomplete information, and checks and balances 0 1 1 122 2 6 14 902
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers 0 0 1 18 5 19 32 124
Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America 0 0 1 6 3 4 13 30
Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict 0 0 1 76 1 2 8 199
Total Working Papers 6 21 85 7,817 176 350 1,064 24,395


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An experimental test of gaming incentives 0 1 2 4 2 5 22 28
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 0 1 7 213 3 11 52 592
Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates 2 2 5 24 4 5 22 96
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments 0 0 0 15 3 5 8 120
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies 0 2 4 16 4 12 35 94
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 1 1 3 0 4 9 14
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 0 2 7 22 234
Comment on "Evaluating Recipes for Development Success": The Policy Usefulness of Institutional and Political Analyses of Development 0 0 0 19 3 3 9 118
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 2 689 2 8 22 2,207
Demand-side determinants of public spending allocations: Voter trust, risk and time preferences 0 0 3 11 1 8 22 68
Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services 0 0 0 1 3 3 21 496
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 3 11 38 574 18 54 181 5,760
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention 0 0 0 35 1 5 20 167
Elections, Special Interests, and Financial Crisis 0 0 0 57 1 1 6 177
Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations 0 0 2 3 3 7 29 46
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 7 17 45 1,367 25 109 287 4,015
Institutions really don't matter for development? A response to Chang 0 1 2 72 4 8 13 157
Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies 1 2 2 43 2 3 7 141
Introduction to the special issue: In memoriam Stephen Knack 0 0 0 2 3 4 13 35
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies 0 1 5 95 9 14 40 375
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 1 1 3 6 6 9 35 66
Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin 0 0 2 103 1 3 13 480
Media’s Influence on Citizen Demand for Public Goods 1 1 1 1 3 3 7 7
New Tools in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions 0 0 3 7 3 8 33 42
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 1 1 2 206 4 5 21 667
Policy misperceptions, information, and the demand for redistributive tax reform: experimental evidence from Latin America 0 0 2 2 1 2 11 11
Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service 1 2 3 112 5 7 25 371
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 3 3 26 1,012
Protection Against a Capricious State: French Investment and Spanish Railroads, 1845–1875 0 0 0 15 0 0 8 62
Pyramid capitalism: Cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 1 1 6 24 3 8 44 116
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 3 5 8 60
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 1 9 72
The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy 0 0 4 22 0 3 22 77
The use of video vignettes to measure health worker knowledge. Evidence from Burkina Faso 0 0 0 3 2 4 9 46
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program 1 2 6 13 5 13 40 74
Vote buying and campaign promises 0 1 3 27 3 7 20 125
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election 0 0 1 1 3 4 25 25
Voting in Firms: The Role of Agenda Control, Size and Voter Homogeneity 0 0 0 0 0 2 13 191
When Do Legislators Pass on Pork? The Role of Political Parties in Determining Legislator Effort 0 0 1 8 3 11 24 45
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 6 19 57 2,598
Younger parties, bigger spenders? Party age and political budget cycles 0 0 0 40 4 8 19 198
Total Journal Articles 19 48 156 3,848 152 401 1,309 21,285


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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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 3 6 11 11 7 18 46 50
Better Spending for Better Lives: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Do More with Less 0 0 0 75 11 41 95 439
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs 0 0 0 30 4 4 24 258
Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa 0 0 3 23 2 3 12 118
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 7
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 9
Trust: The Key to Social Cohesion and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 0 1 36 2 6 14 121
Total Books 3 6 15 175 27 75 206 1,002


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Primer on Trust: Measures and Determinants 0 0 2 5 2 4 10 16
Collective action and government: still a mystery 0 1 2 11 2 4 7 35
Formal versus informal institutions in economic development 4 7 14 540 13 18 43 1,243
Institutions: Mitigating Mistrust 0 0 0 0 5 8 14 20
Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations 0 0 0 5 3 3 9 37
Navigating a Sea of Mistrust 0 0 1 1 3 4 14 17
Organization, Citizenship, and the Social Contract 0 0 1 1 3 5 11 13
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 16
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: The Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 77 1 3 8 462
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 4 6 16 34
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 1 5 10 32 90
The Power of Information 0 0 0 1 4 8 14 18
Trust and the Economy 0 0 0 5 2 3 15 35
Trust and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 9
Trust, Citizenship, and the Making of Good Public Policy 0 0 3 6 3 6 14 23
Trust, Social Cohesion, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 2 2 12 4 9 22 68
Total Chapters 4 10 26 665 57 95 244 2,136
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