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A review of the political economy of governance: from property rights to voice 0 0 1 531 0 3 19 1,134
Assessing Political Commitment to Fighting Corruption 0 0 0 7 2 4 8 37
Beyond legal origin and checks and balances: political credibility, citizen information, and financial sector development 0 0 0 109 7 7 15 447
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 0 1 21 803
Checks and balances, private information, and the credibility of monetary commitments 0 0 0 106 2 4 16 988
Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy 0 0 0 125 0 1 16 442
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 0 294 1 2 21 1,456
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 1 5 11 35
Democracy, Democratic Consolidation and Military Spending 0 0 0 5 1 1 13 57
Democracy, credibility and clientelism 0 0 2 452 3 7 23 1,224
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor 0 0 9 278 1 2 31 693
Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? 0 0 2 271 0 1 27 584
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 2 18 205
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 1 3 14 241
Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention 0 0 0 57 0 1 9 182
Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis 0 0 0 94 0 1 12 266
Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations 0 0 1 10 3 7 12 30
Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? 0 0 1 12 1 1 10 87
General Skills Training for Public Employees: Experimental Evidence on Cybersecurity Training in Argentina 0 0 0 4 2 3 28 36
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 2 2 7 39
Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying 0 0 2 20 1 1 17 184
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 0 0 8 765 4 10 36 1,753
Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies 0 0 1 94 3 5 12 278
Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 1 78 1 4 19 247
It's not all fun and games: Feedback, task motivation, and effort 0 0 0 82 0 1 5 118
Love the Job... or the Patient?: Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care 0 0 0 40 1 1 16 73
Love the job... or the patient ? task vs. mission-based motivations in health care 0 0 0 8 4 5 33 92
Love the job... or the patient? Task vs. mission-based motiviations in healthcare 0 0 0 27 3 3 22 106
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 0 45 2 3 18 172
Mass media and public services: the effects of radio access on public education in Benin 0 0 1 89 1 2 15 334
Mellowing with tenure? Socialization increases prosocial behavior in public organizations 0 0 0 23 2 3 9 73
New tools and new tests in comparative political economy - the database of political institutions 0 0 3 714 1 2 46 2,290
Organizing for prosperity: collective action, political parties and the political economy of development 0 0 1 81 1 2 21 167
Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality 0 0 0 16 1 3 7 86
Party age and party color: new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality 0 0 0 96 2 2 9 226
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 0 2 689 1 2 21 2,134
Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries 0 0 0 7 1 6 15 39
Political Parties, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Reform 0 0 0 9 2 3 20 78
Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties 0 0 0 47 2 4 21 118
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: the Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 237 2 2 9 695
Promises, promises: vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians 0 0 0 59 0 2 6 147
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 1 1 2 108 6 8 23 418
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 1 6 3 4 28 93
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 2 18 1 2 18 114
Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 1 1 1 60 3 8 29 273
Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits 0 0 0 41 0 2 9 134
Social Trust and Electoral Populism: Explaining the Quality of Government 0 0 0 7 1 1 17 49
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 3 303 3 5 55 1,024
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 1 2 8 543
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru 0 0 1 10 0 1 12 46
The development impact of the illegality of drug trade 0 0 0 232 3 3 15 523
The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa 0 0 0 87 0 2 10 205
The organization of political parties and the politics of bureaucratic reform 0 0 0 36 3 3 17 147
Trust, Collaboration, and Policy Attitudes in the Public Sector 0 0 0 23 0 0 10 74
Vote Buying or Campaign Promises?: Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited 0 0 0 29 14 14 31 115
Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending 0 0 1 11 4 4 18 44
Voter Responses to Fiscal Crisis: New Evidence on Preferences for Fiscal Adjustment in Emerging Markets 0 0 2 7 2 2 12 21
Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement: Evidence from a General Election 0 0 0 5 0 1 16 30
What does political economy tell us about economic development - and vice versa? 0 0 0 399 4 5 15 949
When do Legislators pass on"Pork"? the determinants of legislator utilization of a constituency development fund in India 1 1 2 98 3 3 9 235
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 15 905
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers 0 1 1 19 0 1 32 127
Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America 0 0 1 6 1 2 17 35
Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict 0 0 0 76 1 2 8 201
Total Working Papers 3 4 54 7,828 117 201 1,132 24,701


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An experimental test of gaming incentives 0 0 2 4 4 6 27 35
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 1 2 6 217 2 8 41 605
Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates 1 1 4 25 3 7 18 105
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments 0 0 0 15 2 2 11 124
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies 1 3 7 20 3 8 41 109
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 1 3 0 1 10 16
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 0 3 7 30 244
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 5 8 28 2,215
Demand-side determinants of public spending allocations: Voter trust, risk and time preferences 0 0 3 11 1 1 23 71
Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services 0 0 0 1 3 4 24 507
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 3 12 43 595 20 62 228 5,872
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention 0 0 0 35 1 2 19 171
Elections, Special Interests, and Financial Crisis 0 0 0 57 2 3 9 181
Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations 0 0 1 3 2 3 27 53
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 1 5 40 1,380 10 24 268 4,071
Institutions really don't matter for development? A response to Chang 0 0 1 72 0 0 11 158
Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 2 43 2 2 7 143
Introduction to the special issue: In memoriam Stephen Knack 0 0 0 2 1 3 16 40
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies 3 7 11 103 4 11 42 393
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 1 1 3 7 1 6 32 77
Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin 0 0 1 103 1 1 11 481
Media’s Influence on Citizen Demand for Public Goods 0 0 1 1 0 0 7 9
New Tools in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions 0 0 2 7 1 13 46 60
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 1 1 4 208 1 5 25 673
Policy misperceptions, information, and the demand for redistributive tax reform: experimental evidence from Latin America 0 0 2 2 2 3 14 15
Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 1 3 113 0 2 25 378
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 2 3 21 1,019
Protection Against a Capricious State: French Investment and Spanish Railroads, 1845–1875 0 0 0 15 2 2 10 65
Pyramid capitalism: Cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 1 1 6 27 3 7 47 132
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 1 9 62
The Government Response to Informed Citizens: New Evidence on Media Access and the Distribution of Public Health Benefits in Africa 0 0 1 10 1 1 8 74
The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy 0 1 2 23 3 4 20 82
The use of video vignettes to measure health worker knowledge. Evidence from Burkina Faso 0 0 0 3 1 2 11 48
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program 0 0 3 14 4 6 39 86
Vote buying and campaign promises 0 1 4 29 1 4 24 135
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election 0 0 1 1 6 8 31 34
Voting in Firms: The Role of Agenda Control, Size and Voter Homogeneity 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 195
When Do Legislators Pass on Pork? The Role of Political Parties in Determining Legislator Effort 0 0 2 10 4 6 32 54
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 5 5 42 2,605
Younger parties, bigger spenders? Party age and political budget cycles 0 0 1 41 0 0 13 199
Total Journal Articles 13 36 159 3,913 107 241 1,369 21,714


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 0 13 13 4 7 53 65
Better Spending for Better Lives: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Do More with Less 0 0 1 76 3 4 96 454
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs 0 0 0 30 3 3 19 263
Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa 0 0 0 23 3 3 12 123
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 2 2 9 9
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 11
Trust: The Key to Social Cohesion and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 1 1 37 5 6 17 129
Total Books 0 1 15 179 21 27 214 1,054


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Primer on Trust: Measures and Determinants 0 0 0 5 0 0 10 18
Collective action and government: still a mystery 0 0 1 11 2 4 10 39
Formal versus informal institutions in economic development 1 1 15 546 4 6 40 1,257
Institutions: Mitigating Mistrust 0 0 0 0 1 1 16 22
Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations 0 0 0 5 2 3 12 41
Navigating a Sea of Mistrust 0 0 0 1 2 3 12 20
Organization, Citizenship, and the Social Contract 0 0 0 1 3 3 12 16
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 17
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: The Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 77 1 1 7 463
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 1 1 2 27 94
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 2 2 15 36
The Power of Information 0 0 0 1 3 3 18 22
Trust and the Economy 0 0 0 5 1 1 12 39
Trust and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 1 2 3 13 15
Trust, Citizenship, and the Making of Good Public Policy 0 0 0 6 1 1 12 25
Trust, Social Cohesion, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 1 1 4 14 3 7 28 83
Total Chapters 2 2 21 674 29 41 248 2,207
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