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A review of the political economy of governance: from property rights to voice 0 0 0 530 1 1 3 1,116
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 3 432
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 0 3 3 782
Checks and balances, private information, and the credibility of monetary commitments 0 0 0 106 0 2 3 972
Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy 0 0 0 125 1 5 5 427
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 3 294 4 5 25 1,439
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 0 6 24
Democracy, Democratic Consolidation and Military Spending 0 0 1 5 1 2 4 45
Democracy, credibility and clientelism 0 1 1 450 3 7 9 1,204
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor 0 1 1 269 6 8 14 668
Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? 1 1 3 270 2 4 9 559
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 2 188
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 0 1 2 227
Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention 0 0 0 57 1 1 1 174
Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis 0 0 0 94 0 0 1 254
Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations 1 1 1 10 3 3 7 21
Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? 0 0 1 11 0 1 6 77
General Skills Training for Public Employees: Experimental Evidence on Cybersecurity Training in Argentina 0 0 0 4 2 3 5 10
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 3 32
Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying 0 0 3 18 1 6 14 168
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 0 1 14 757 3 7 34 1,720
Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies 0 0 0 93 0 1 4 266
Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 2 77 1 1 13 229
It's not all fun and games: Feedback, task motivation, and effort 0 0 0 82 0 0 6 113
Love the Job... or the Patient?: Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care 0 0 1 40 3 3 5 60
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 2 3 5 86
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 2 45 0 1 7 154
Mass media and public services: the effects of radio access on public education in Benin 0 1 2 88 2 5 12 321
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 3 711 4 9 28 2,248
Organizing for prosperity: collective action, political parties and the political economy of development 0 0 0 80 1 2 3 147
Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality 0 0 0 16 0 0 4 79
Party age and party color: new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality 0 0 0 96 1 1 3 218
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 1 8 687 1 5 35 2,114
Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries 0 0 1 7 1 4 7 25
Political Parties, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Reform 0 1 2 9 4 6 10 62
Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties 0 0 0 47 1 3 4 98
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: the Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 237 1 1 2 687
Promises, promises: vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians 0 0 1 59 0 0 2 141
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 1 3 9 396
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 1 1 5 3 5 10 68
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 0 16 1 3 5 97
Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 1 59 3 7 10 247
Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits 0 0 0 41 0 2 6 125
Social Trust and Electoral Populism: Explaining the Quality of Government 0 0 0 7 0 2 4 32
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 2 7 300 7 14 23 976
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 1 3 535
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru 0 1 1 9 1 3 3 35
The development impact of the illegality of drug trade 0 0 0 232 2 2 3 510
The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa 0 0 0 87 1 1 3 196
The organization of political parties and the politics of bureaucratic reform 0 0 0 36 2 4 4 132
Trust, Collaboration, and Policy Attitudes in the Public Sector 0 0 0 23 2 3 27 66
Vote Buying or Campaign Promises?: Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited 0 0 0 29 0 0 7 84
Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending 0 0 1 10 0 0 2 26
Voter Responses to Fiscal Crisis: New Evidence on Preferences for Fiscal Adjustment in Emerging Markets 2 3 4 7 2 3 5 11
Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement: Evidence from a General Election 0 0 1 5 0 3 7 14
What does political economy tell us about economic development - and vice versa? 0 0 3 399 0 0 13 934
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 5 891
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers 0 1 1 18 1 2 4 96
Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America 1 1 1 6 1 1 3 19
Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict 0 1 1 76 1 3 3 194
Total Working Papers 5 19 79 7,779 80 169 476 23,649


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An experimental test of gaming incentives 0 0 2 2 4 6 12 12
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 0 1 9 211 1 12 31 565
Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates 0 0 5 21 2 6 28 89
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments 0 0 0 15 1 1 3 114
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies 1 1 4 14 5 10 26 73
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 7
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 215
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 3 4 6 2,190
Demand-side determinants of public spending allocations: Voter trust, risk and time preferences 1 1 1 9 1 2 7 49
Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services 0 0 0 1 0 3 10 483
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 4 11 55 556 19 43 151 5,663
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention 0 0 0 35 2 4 7 154
Elections, Special Interests, and Financial Crisis 0 0 0 57 0 0 2 172
Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations 0 0 1 2 4 6 21 30
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 2 7 42 1,342 18 43 142 3,821
Institutions really don't matter for development? A response to Chang 0 1 1 71 1 2 5 148
Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 41 0 1 3 136
Introduction to the special issue: In memoriam Stephen Knack 0 0 0 2 2 3 4 26
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies 1 2 7 93 5 12 32 356
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 1 1 5 5 4 13 40 49
Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin 1 1 3 103 2 3 7 472
Media’s Influence on Citizen Demand for Public Goods 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 3
New Tools in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions 1 1 2 6 2 2 9 16
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 1 204 7 8 15 655
Policy misperceptions, information, and the demand for redistributive tax reform: experimental evidence from Latin America 1 1 1 1 4 5 5 5
Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 1 1 110 3 7 12 356
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 4 11 25 1,002
Protection Against a Capricious State: French Investment and Spanish Railroads, 1845–1875 0 0 0 15 0 0 2 55
Pyramid capitalism: Cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 2 3 21 5 13 23 90
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 1 53
The Government Response to Informed Citizens: New Evidence on Media Access and the Distribution of Public Health Benefits in Africa 1 1 1 10 3 4 7 69
The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy 0 0 5 21 1 2 14 63
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 0 1 9 11 3 10 40 50
Vote buying and campaign promises 0 1 1 25 2 4 12 113
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election 1 1 1 1 5 6 8 8
Voting in Firms: The Role of Agenda Control, Size and Voter Homogeneity 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 182
When Do Legislators Pass on Pork? The Role of Political Parties in Determining Legislator Effort 0 1 1 8 0 1 1 22
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 2 6 39 2,565
Younger parties, bigger spenders? Party age and political budget cycles 0 0 0 40 0 3 10 186
Total Journal Articles 15 36 161 3,769 118 265 778 20,463


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 2 2 2 2 6 9 18 18
Better Spending for Better Lives: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Do More with Less 0 0 3 75 14 25 37 372
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs 0 0 1 30 3 7 27 247
Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa 0 2 4 23 0 3 11 111
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 5
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 1 7 112
Total Books 2 4 11 166 25 48 104 865


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Primer on Trust: Measures and Determinants 0 0 3 5 0 0 4 8
Collective action and government: still a mystery 0 0 1 10 0 0 4 29
Formal versus informal institutions in economic development 2 3 25 533 5 11 45 1,222
Institutions: Mitigating Mistrust 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 7
Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations 0 0 0 5 2 2 5 31
Navigating a Sea of Mistrust 0 1 1 1 1 4 8 9
Organization, Citizenship, and the Social Contract 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 5
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 13
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: The Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 77 0 2 2 456
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 21
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 1 1 1 7 12 23 74
The Power of Information 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 5
Trust and the Economy 0 0 0 5 0 1 12 27
Trust and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 4
Trust, Citizenship, and the Making of Good Public Policy 0 1 3 6 0 2 5 13
Trust, Social Cohesion, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 0 1 10 1 4 19 56
Total Chapters 2 6 36 655 21 45 150 1,980
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