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A review of the political economy of governance: from property rights to voice 0 1 1 531 0 6 7 1,122
Assessing Political Commitment to Fighting Corruption 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 30
Beyond legal origin and checks and balances: political credibility, citizen information, and financial sector development 0 0 0 109 1 6 8 438
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 0 18 21 800
Checks and balances, private information, and the credibility of monetary commitments 0 0 0 106 1 7 9 979
Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy 0 0 0 125 1 5 10 432
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 3 294 2 9 26 1,448
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 10 0 3 6 27
Democracy, Democratic Consolidation and Military Spending 0 0 1 5 1 3 7 48
Democracy, credibility and clientelism 0 2 3 452 1 8 16 1,212
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor 0 5 6 274 1 13 26 681
Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? 0 0 2 270 1 17 25 576
Do informed citizens receive more...or pay more ? the impact of radio on the government distribution of public health benefits 0 0 0 75 4 10 11 198
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 1 7 8 234
Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention 0 0 0 57 2 4 5 178
Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis 0 0 0 94 0 7 8 261
Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations 0 0 1 10 0 2 9 23
Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? 0 0 0 11 0 5 7 82
General Skills Training for Public Employees: Experimental Evidence on Cybersecurity Training in Argentina 0 0 0 4 3 12 16 22
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 4 7 36
Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying 0 1 4 19 1 8 19 176
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 0 2 14 759 3 10 39 1,730
Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies 0 0 0 93 0 5 9 271
Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 1 77 3 8 15 237
It's not all fun and games: Feedback, task motivation, and effort 0 0 0 82 3 4 6 117
Love the Job... or the Patient?: Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care 0 0 1 40 1 8 13 68
Love the job... or the patient ? task vs. mission-based motivations in health care 0 0 0 8 7 22 22 81
Love the job... or the patient? Task vs. mission-based motiviations in healthcare 0 0 0 27 2 11 16 97
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 2 45 0 10 15 164
Mass media and public services: the effects of radio access on public education in Benin 0 0 2 88 2 5 15 326
Mellowing with tenure? Socialization increases prosocial behavior in public organizations 0 0 0 23 0 2 2 66
New tools and new tests in comparative political economy - the database of political institutions 0 1 3 712 1 24 44 2,272
Organizing for prosperity: collective action, political parties and the political economy of development 1 1 1 81 5 8 11 155
Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality 0 0 0 16 0 2 5 81
Party age and party color: new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality 0 0 0 96 1 5 7 223
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 2 9 689 3 11 42 2,125
Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries 0 0 0 7 0 8 14 33
Political Parties, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Reform 0 0 1 9 2 4 12 66
Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties 0 0 0 47 1 9 13 107
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: the Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 237 1 5 6 692
Promises, promises: vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians 0 0 1 59 0 1 2 142
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 2 9 16 405
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 1 1 1 17 2 7 12 104
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 1 2 6 2 10 16 78
Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 1 59 2 11 20 258
Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits 0 0 0 41 1 4 9 129
Social Trust and Electoral Populism: Explaining the Quality of Government 0 0 0 7 0 9 13 41
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 1 8 301 4 16 39 992
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 1 3 536
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru 0 0 1 9 2 8 11 43
The development impact of the illegality of drug trade 0 0 0 232 0 5 8 515
The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa 0 0 0 87 0 6 8 202
The organization of political parties and the politics of bureaucratic reform 0 0 0 36 2 6 10 138
Trust, Collaboration, and Policy Attitudes in the Public Sector 0 0 0 23 2 7 33 73
Vote Buying or Campaign Promises?: Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited 0 0 0 29 1 9 14 93
Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending 0 1 1 11 2 8 8 34
Voter Responses to Fiscal Crisis: New Evidence on Preferences for Fiscal Adjustment in Emerging Markets 0 0 4 7 1 7 12 18
Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement: Evidence from a General Election 0 0 0 5 2 6 9 20
What does political economy tell us about economic development - and vice versa? 0 0 2 399 1 6 18 940
When do Legislators pass on"Pork"? the determinants of legislator utilization of a constituency development fund in India 1 1 3 97 2 3 6 229
When do special interests run rampant ? disentangling the role in banking crises of elections, incomplete information, and checks and balances 0 0 0 121 3 8 11 899
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers 0 0 1 18 2 11 15 107
Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America 0 0 1 6 1 8 10 27
Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict 0 0 1 76 0 3 6 197
Total Working Papers 3 20 83 7,799 89 485 867 24,134


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An experimental test of gaming incentives 1 2 3 4 3 14 24 26
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 1 2 10 213 4 20 48 585
Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates 0 1 5 22 1 3 23 92
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments 0 0 0 15 1 2 5 116
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies 1 1 4 15 6 15 34 88
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 0 5 17 20 232
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 1 1 1 3 3 6 8 13
Comment on "Evaluating Recipes for Development Success": The Policy Usefulness of Institutional and Political Analyses of Development 0 0 0 19 0 6 6 115
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 2 2 689 2 11 16 2,201
Demand-side determinants of public spending allocations: Voter trust, risk and time preferences 0 2 3 11 5 16 20 65
Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services 0 0 0 1 0 10 18 493
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 2 9 32 565 11 54 144 5,717
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention 0 0 0 35 2 10 17 164
Elections, Special Interests, and Financial Crisis 0 0 0 57 0 4 5 176
Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations 0 1 2 3 3 12 27 42
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 7 15 45 1,357 54 139 256 3,960
Institutions really don't matter for development? A response to Chang 0 0 1 71 1 2 6 150
Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies 1 1 1 42 1 3 5 139
Introduction to the special issue: In memoriam Stephen Knack 0 0 0 2 0 5 9 31
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies 0 1 5 94 1 6 30 362
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 4 5 3 11 39 60
Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin 0 0 3 103 1 6 12 478
Media’s Influence on Citizen Demand for Public Goods 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 4
New Tools in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions 0 1 3 7 4 22 30 38
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 1 1 205 1 8 21 663
Policy misperceptions, information, and the demand for redistributive tax reform: experimental evidence from Latin America 0 1 2 2 1 5 10 10
Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 1 110 1 9 19 365
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 0 7 27 1,009
Protection Against a Capricious State: French Investment and Spanish Railroads, 1845–1875 0 0 0 15 0 7 8 62
Pyramid capitalism: Cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 2 5 23 3 21 42 111
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 1 3 4 56
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 2 9 71
The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy 0 1 4 22 3 14 22 77
The use of video vignettes to measure health worker knowledge. Evidence from Burkina Faso 0 0 0 3 1 6 7 43
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program 0 0 8 11 4 15 38 65
Vote buying and campaign promises 0 1 2 26 0 5 13 118
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election 0 0 1 1 0 13 21 21
Voting in Firms: The Role of Agenda Control, Size and Voter Homogeneity 0 0 0 0 1 8 12 190
When Do Legislators Pass on Pork? The Role of Political Parties in Determining Legislator Effort 0 0 1 8 4 16 17 38
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 7 21 53 2,586
Younger parties, bigger spenders? Party age and political budget cycles 0 0 0 40 4 8 15 194
Total Journal Articles 14 45 150 3,814 142 563 1,144 21,026


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 8 8 8 22 40 40
Better Spending for Better Lives: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Do More with Less 0 0 0 75 15 41 73 413
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs 0 0 1 30 0 7 25 254
Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa 0 0 4 23 1 5 15 116
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 2 7 7 7
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 8
Trust: The Key to Social Cohesion and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 0 1 36 3 6 13 118
Total Books 3 6 14 172 29 91 180 956


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Primer on Trust: Measures and Determinants 0 0 3 5 0 4 7 12
Collective action and government: still a mystery 0 0 1 10 0 2 4 31
Formal versus informal institutions in economic development 3 3 20 536 5 8 43 1,230
Institutions: Mitigating Mistrust 0 0 0 0 1 6 7 13
Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations 0 0 0 5 0 3 7 34
Navigating a Sea of Mistrust 0 0 1 1 0 4 10 13
Organization, Citizenship, and the Social Contract 0 0 1 1 0 3 7 8
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 14
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: The Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 77 1 4 6 460
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 1 1 7 25 81
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 2 9 14 30
The Power of Information 0 0 0 1 1 6 7 11
Trust and the Economy 0 0 0 5 0 5 14 32
Trust and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 8
Trust, Citizenship, and the Making of Good Public Policy 0 0 3 6 2 6 10 19
Trust, Social Cohesion, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 1 1 2 11 1 4 15 60
Total Chapters 4 4 32 659 15 76 188 2,056
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