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A review of the political economy of governance: from property rights to voice 0 0 1 531 0 2 16 1,131
Assessing Political Commitment to Fighting Corruption 0 0 0 7 2 2 6 35
Beyond legal origin and checks and balances: political credibility, citizen information, and financial sector development 0 0 0 109 0 0 9 440
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 1 1 24 803
Checks and balances, private information, and the credibility of monetary commitments 0 0 0 106 1 3 15 985
Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy 0 0 0 125 1 3 20 442
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 0 294 0 0 20 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 4 4 10 34
Democracy, Democratic Consolidation and Military Spending 0 0 0 5 0 0 13 56
Democracy, credibility and clientelism 0 0 3 452 2 4 22 1,219
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor 0 0 10 278 0 1 31 691
Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? 0 1 2 271 1 3 29 584
Do informed citizens receive more...or pay more ? the impact of radio on the government distribution of public health benefits 0 0 0 75 1 1 17 204
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 2 2 14 240
Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention 0 0 0 57 0 1 8 181
Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis 0 0 0 94 1 2 12 266
Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations 0 0 1 10 4 4 9 27
Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? 0 0 1 12 0 0 10 86
General Skills Training for Public Employees: Experimental Evidence on Cybersecurity Training in Argentina 0 0 0 4 0 1 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 0 5 37
Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying 0 1 2 20 0 4 21 183
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 0 1 9 765 3 5 33 1,746
Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies 0 0 1 94 2 2 10 275
Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 1 78 2 5 17 245
It's not all fun and games: Feedback, task motivation, and effort 0 0 0 82 1 1 5 118
Love the Job... or the Patient?: Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care 0 0 0 40 0 0 15 72
Love the job... or the patient ? task vs. mission-based motivations in health care 0 0 0 8 1 2 29 88
Love the job... or the patient? Task vs. mission-based motiviations in healthcare 0 0 0 27 0 1 20 103
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 0 45 0 0 16 169
Mass media and public services: the effects of radio access on public education in Benin 0 0 2 89 0 1 16 332
Mellowing with tenure? Socialization increases prosocial behavior in public organizations 0 0 0 23 1 1 7 71
New tools and new tests in comparative political economy - the database of political institutions 0 1 4 714 0 7 49 2,288
Organizing for prosperity: collective action, political parties and the political economy of development 0 0 1 81 1 3 21 166
Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality 0 0 0 16 2 2 6 85
Party age and party color: new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality 0 0 0 96 0 0 7 224
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 0 3 689 1 2 24 2,133
Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries 0 0 0 7 4 4 16 37
Political Parties, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Reform 0 0 1 9 1 1 20 76
Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties 0 0 0 47 1 1 20 115
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: the Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 237 0 0 7 693
Promises, promises: vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians 0 0 0 59 1 2 5 146
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 1 107 1 1 18 411
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 2 18 0 0 18 112
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 2 6 0 1 26 89
Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 0 59 4 6 29 269
Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits 0 0 0 41 2 3 11 134
Social Trust and Electoral Populism: Explaining the Quality of Government 0 0 0 7 0 1 18 48
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 1 5 303 2 9 59 1,021
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 1 1 8 542
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru 0 0 2 10 1 1 14 46
The development impact of the illegality of drug trade 0 0 0 232 0 0 12 520
The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa 0 0 0 87 2 2 10 205
The organization of political parties and the politics of bureaucratic reform 0 0 0 36 0 0 16 144
Trust, Collaboration, and Policy Attitudes in the Public Sector 0 0 0 23 0 0 11 74
Vote Buying or Campaign Promises?: Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited 0 0 0 29 0 2 17 101
Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending 0 0 1 11 0 0 14 40
Voter Responses to Fiscal Crisis: New Evidence on Preferences for Fiscal Adjustment in Emerging Markets 0 0 3 7 0 0 11 19
Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement: Evidence from a General Election 0 0 0 5 0 1 18 29
What does political economy tell us about economic development - and vice versa? 0 0 0 399 0 0 10 944
When do Legislators pass on"Pork"? the determinants of legislator utilization of a constituency development fund in India 0 0 1 97 0 0 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 2 14 904
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers 1 1 2 19 1 1 33 127
Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America 0 0 1 6 1 3 16 34
Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict 0 0 1 76 0 0 8 199
Total Working Papers 1 6 65 7,825 57 112 1,077 24,557


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An experimental test of gaming incentives 0 0 2 4 2 3 25 31
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 1 3 6 216 5 9 49 602
Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates 0 0 3 24 3 4 18 101
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments 0 0 0 15 0 2 9 122
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies 2 3 6 19 3 7 41 104
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 1 3 1 2 10 16
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 0 2 5 26 239
Comment on "Evaluating Recipes for Development Success": The Policy Usefulness of Institutional and Political Analyses of Development 0 0 0 19 0 0 9 118
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 2 689 1 1 22 2,208
Demand-side determinants of public spending allocations: Voter trust, risk and time preferences 0 0 3 11 0 2 23 70
Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services 0 0 0 1 1 3 24 504
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 4 10 42 587 19 51 209 5,829
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention 0 0 0 35 1 3 20 170
Elections, Special Interests, and Financial Crisis 0 0 0 57 0 1 6 178
Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations 0 0 1 3 1 4 27 51
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 4 10 44 1,379 9 28 278 4,056
Institutions really don't matter for development? A response to Chang 0 0 2 72 0 1 12 158
Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 2 43 0 0 6 141
Introduction to the special issue: In memoriam Stephen Knack 0 0 0 2 1 2 15 38
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies 0 0 5 96 2 5 40 384
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 2 6 4 7 39 75
Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin 0 0 1 103 0 0 11 480
Media’s Influence on Citizen Demand for Public Goods 0 0 1 1 0 2 9 9
New Tools in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions 0 0 2 7 10 13 43 57
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 1 3 207 4 5 25 672
Policy misperceptions, information, and the demand for redistributive tax reform: experimental evidence from Latin America 0 0 2 2 0 1 12 12
Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 3 112 1 5 28 377
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 1 5 26 1,017
Protection Against a Capricious State: French Investment and Spanish Railroads, 1845–1875 0 0 0 15 0 0 8 63
Pyramid capitalism: Cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 7 26 0 6 48 125
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 1 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 0 1 8 73
The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy 0 0 1 22 0 1 17 78
The use of video vignettes to measure health worker knowledge. Evidence from Burkina Faso 0 0 0 3 1 1 10 47
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program 0 1 4 14 1 2 41 81
Vote buying and campaign promises 0 1 4 28 1 3 23 132
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election 0 0 1 1 1 2 25 27
Voting in Firms: The Role of Agenda Control, Size and Voter Homogeneity 0 0 0 0 0 3 15 195
When Do Legislators Pass on Pork? The Role of Political Parties in Determining Legislator Effort 0 1 3 10 1 3 28 49
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 0 2 41 2,600
Younger parties, bigger spenders? Party age and political budget cycles 0 0 1 41 0 0 16 199
Total Journal Articles 11 30 155 3,888 76 196 1,351 21,549


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 0 1 13 13 0 6 49 58
Better Spending for Better Lives: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Do More with Less 0 1 1 76 1 8 104 451
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 0 7 9
Trust: The Key to Social Cohesion and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 0 0 36 0 2 12 123
Total Books 0 2 14 125 1 16 179 648
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Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Primer on Trust: Measures and Determinants 0 0 0 5 0 1 10 18
Collective action and government: still a mystery 0 0 1 11 1 1 7 36
Formal versus informal institutions in economic development 0 3 15 545 1 6 41 1,252
Institutions: Mitigating Mistrust 0 0 0 0 0 1 15 21
Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations 0 0 0 5 0 0 9 38
Navigating a Sea of Mistrust 0 0 1 1 1 1 13 18
Organization, Citizenship, and the Social Contract 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 13
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 16
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: The Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 77 0 0 8 462
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 34
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 1 1 1 31 93
The Power of Information 0 0 0 1 0 0 15 19
Trust and the Economy 0 0 0 5 0 1 12 38
Trust and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 1 1 3 11 13
Trust, Citizenship, and the Making of Good Public Policy 0 0 1 6 0 0 13 24
Trust, Social Cohesion, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 1 3 13 1 6 25 77
Total Chapters 0 4 23 672 6 21 237 2,172
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