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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 0 1 3 431
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 0 1 970
Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy 0 0 0 125 0 0 1 422
Contract Intensive Money 1 3 5 294 1 4 26 1,434
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 1 1 1 5 2 2 2 43
Democracy, credibility and clientelism 0 0 0 449 0 0 4 1,197
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor 0 0 1 268 0 0 12 660
Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? 0 1 3 269 0 4 7 555
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 1 1 1 254
Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations 0 0 1 9 1 2 8 18
Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? 0 0 1 11 1 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 2 14 162
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 1 3 17 756 3 9 39 1,713
Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies 0 0 0 93 0 3 3 265
Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 1 3 77 0 1 14 228
It's not all fun and games: Feedback, task motivation, and effort 0 0 0 82 1 2 6 113
Love the Job... or the Patient?: Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care 1 1 1 40 1 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 2 3 83
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 0 0 1 87 1 3 8 316
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 6 29 2,239
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 1 16 0 0 5 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 0 0 12 686 4 4 41 2,109
Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries 0 0 1 7 0 0 8 21
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 1 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 1 1 59 0 1 2 141
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 0 1 7 393
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 0 16 1 2 2 94
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 1 4 0 1 9 63
Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 1 59 0 1 5 240
Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits 0 0 0 41 0 2 5 123
Social Trust and Electoral Populism: Explaining the Quality of Government 0 0 1 7 0 0 3 30
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 3 4 5 298 3 4 13 962
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 1 3 534
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru 0 0 1 8 0 0 1 32
The development impact of the illegality of drug trade 0 0 0 232 1 1 1 508
The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa 0 0 0 87 0 1 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 1 23 15 23 26 63
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 3 4 0 0 5 8
Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement: Evidence from a General Election 0 0 1 5 0 0 4 11
What does political economy tell us about economic development - and vice versa? 0 0 3 399 3 8 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 1 1 5 890
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers 0 0 1 17 0 0 3 94
Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America 0 0 1 5 1 1 5 18
Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 191
Total Working Papers 7 16 91 7,760 46 106 420 23,480


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 0 3 11 210 1 10 23 553
Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates 0 1 7 21 5 8 30 83
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments 0 0 0 15 0 1 3 113
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies 0 1 4 13 0 3 19 63
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 213
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 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 1 1 9 47
Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services 0 0 0 1 1 2 11 480
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 1 6 67 545 5 24 175 5,620
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention 0 0 0 35 1 3 4 150
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 0 4 20 24
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 3 8 57 1,335 5 34 153 3,778
Institutions really don't matter for development? A response to Chang 0 0 0 70 0 2 5 146
Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 41 0 1 3 135
Introduction to the special issue: In memoriam Stephen Knack 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 23
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies 0 0 6 91 2 7 26 344
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 4 4 3 4 34 36
Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin 0 1 2 102 0 1 5 469
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 5 0 4 11 14
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 4 204 0 0 14 647
Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 2 109 0 2 8 349
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 0 5 16 991
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 1 2 19 2 4 11 77
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 1 3 6 21 1 4 17 61
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 2 3 9 10 2 4 36 40
Vote buying and campaign promises 0 0 2 24 0 3 13 109
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election 0 0 0 0 2 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 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 21
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 0 6 38 2,559
Younger parties, bigger spenders? Party age and political budget cycles 0 0 0 40 0 4 7 183
Total Journal Articles 8 27 192 3,733 31 149 727 20,198


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 2 3 16 347
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs 0 0 4 30 1 3 40 240
Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa 1 1 2 21 1 2 10 108
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
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 0 3 8 111
Total Books 1 1 10 162 4 11 75 808


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Primer on Trust: Measures and Determinants 0 2 3 5 0 2 5 8
Collective action and government: still a mystery 0 0 2 10 0 0 7 29
Formal versus informal institutions in economic development 0 1 24 530 1 8 38 1,211
Institutions: Mitigating Mistrust 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6
Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations 0 0 0 5 1 1 3 29
Navigating a Sea of Mistrust 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 5
Organization, Citizenship, and the Social Contract 0 1 1 1 0 1 4 4
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 1 2 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 2 7 20
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 1 4 16 62
The Power of Information 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 4
Trust and the Economy 0 0 1 5 1 6 15 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 3 5 1 2 5 11
Trust, Social Cohesion, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 0 3 10 1 4 27 52
Total Chapters 1 6 38 649 9 36 144 1,935
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