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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 2 109 1 1 4 431
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 2 422
Contract Intensive Money 2 2 6 293 3 6 27 1,433
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 10 0 2 5 23
Democracy, Democratic Consolidation and Military Spending 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 41
Democracy, credibility and clientelism 0 0 0 449 0 0 4 1,197
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor 0 0 1 268 0 4 13 660
Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? 1 1 3 269 3 3 7 554
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 1 94 0 0 1 253
Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations 0 0 1 9 0 2 6 16
Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? 0 0 1 11 0 0 4 75
General Skills Training for Public Employees: Experimental Evidence on Cybersecurity Training in Argentina 0 0 4 4 0 1 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 2 2 31
Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying 0 2 3 18 0 2 12 160
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 1 6 15 754 3 11 33 1,707
Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies 0 0 0 93 1 1 3 263
Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service 1 1 3 77 1 4 14 228
It's not all fun and games: Feedback, task motivation, and effort 0 0 0 82 1 1 6 112
Love the Job... or the Patient?: Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care 0 0 0 39 0 0 0 55
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 0 0 1 81
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 2 44 0 0 6 151
Mass media and public services: the effects of radio access on public education in Benin 0 1 2 87 1 3 8 314
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 1 7 710 0 3 31 2,233
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 3 5 79
Party age and party color: new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality 0 0 1 96 0 0 2 216
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 4 12 686 0 18 42 2,105
Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries 0 0 1 7 0 2 9 21
Political Parties, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Reform 0 0 1 8 0 0 3 54
Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties 0 0 0 47 0 0 0 94
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 1 1 1 59 1 1 2 141
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 0 1 8 392
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 2 4 0 0 9 62
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 92
Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 2 59 1 1 9 240
Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits 0 0 0 41 1 2 4 122
Social Trust and Electoral Populism: Explaining the Quality of Government 0 0 1 7 0 1 4 30
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 1 2 2 295 1 4 11 959
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 1 1 3 534
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru 0 0 2 8 0 0 2 32
The development impact of the illegality of drug trade 0 0 0 232 0 0 1 507
The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa 0 0 0 87 1 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 1 1 5 41
Vote Buying or Campaign Promises?: Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited 0 0 0 29 0 3 9 83
Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending 0 0 2 10 0 0 4 26
Voter Responses to Fiscal Crisis: New Evidence on Preferences for Fiscal Adjustment in Emerging Markets 0 0 4 4 0 1 8 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 2 3 399 5 9 12 931
When do Legislators pass on"Pork"? the determinants of legislator utilization of a constituency development fund in India 0 1 2 96 0 2 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 5 889
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers 0 0 1 17 0 2 3 94
Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America 0 0 2 5 0 0 6 17
Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 191
Total Working Papers 7 25 99 7,751 26 100 388 23,400


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An experimental test of gaming incentives 0 1 2 2 0 1 6 6
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 2 5 10 209 6 11 19 549
Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates 1 3 7 21 2 6 25 77
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments 0 0 0 15 1 2 3 113
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies 1 1 4 13 3 5 20 63
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 1 2 0 1 3 6
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 213
Comment on "Evaluating Recipes for Development Success": The Policy Usefulness of Institutional and Political Analyses of Development 0 0 0 19 0 0 1 109
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 0 687 0 1 4 2,186
Demand-side determinants of public spending allocations: Voter trust, risk and time preferences 0 0 0 8 0 0 9 46
Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services 0 0 0 1 1 4 12 479
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 1 7 66 540 8 29 175 5,604
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention 0 0 0 35 0 0 2 147
Elections, Special Interests, and Financial Crisis 0 0 0 57 0 0 1 171
Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations 0 1 2 2 2 7 20 22
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 4 14 62 1,331 19 48 159 3,763
Institutions really don't matter for development? A response to Chang 0 0 0 70 1 1 4 145
Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 41 1 1 3 135
Introduction to the special issue: In memoriam Stephen Knack 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 23
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies 0 2 8 91 2 6 26 339
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 1 4 4 0 4 32 32
Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin 1 2 2 102 1 3 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 1 4 5 2 4 10 12
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 5 204 0 3 17 647
Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 3 109 1 2 9 348
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 2 4 14 988
Protection Against a Capricious State: French Investment and Spanish Railroads, 1845–1875 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 54
Pyramid capitalism: Cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 1 18 1 3 11 74
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 0 1 63
The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy 0 0 3 18 0 2 15 57
The use of video vignettes to measure health worker knowledge. Evidence from Burkina Faso 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 37
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program 0 3 6 7 0 5 34 36
Vote buying and campaign promises 0 0 2 24 2 3 13 108
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Voting in Firms: The Role of Agenda Control, Size and Voter Homogeneity 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 180
When Do Legislators Pass on Pork? The Role of Political Parties in Determining Legislator Effort 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 21
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 4 18 39 2,557
Younger parties, bigger spenders? Party age and political budget cycles 0 0 1 40 2 2 6 181
Total Journal Articles 10 41 193 3,716 63 181 715 20,112


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 4 75 0 3 15 344
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs 0 0 4 30 1 7 42 238
Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa 0 1 1 20 1 4 10 107
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 0 1 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 1 2 36 0 3 8 108
Total Books 0 2 11 161 2 18 76 799


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Primer on Trust: Measures and Determinants 2 3 3 5 2 3 5 8
Collective action and government: still a mystery 0 1 2 10 0 2 8 29
Formal versus informal institutions in economic development 1 13 27 530 6 18 40 1,209
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 0 1 2 28
Navigating a Sea of Mistrust 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
Organization, Citizenship, and the Social Contract 1 1 1 1 1 3 4 4
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 11
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 2 2 7 20
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 2 2 14 60
The Power of Information 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 4
Trust and the Economy 0 0 2 5 3 3 15 23
Trust and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trust, Citizenship, and the Making of Good Public Policy 1 1 4 4 1 1 6 10
Trust, Social Cohesion, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 1 6 10 2 5 36 50
Total Chapters 5 20 46 648 20 41 149 1,919
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