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A review of the political economy of governance: from property rights to voice 0 0 0 530 0 0 2 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 1 109 0 1 3 432
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 1 3 3 782
Checks and balances, private information, and the credibility of monetary commitments 0 0 0 106 2 2 3 972
Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy 0 0 0 125 3 4 4 426
Contract Intensive Money 0 1 3 294 0 2 21 1,435
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 1 1 5 1 3 3 44
Democracy, credibility and clientelism 0 1 1 450 2 4 6 1,201
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor 1 1 1 269 1 2 8 662
Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? 0 0 2 269 1 2 7 557
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 1 187
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 1 60 1 1 3 227
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 0 94 0 1 1 254
Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations 0 0 1 9 0 1 6 18
Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? 0 0 1 11 1 2 6 77
General Skills Training for Public Employees: Experimental Evidence on Cybersecurity Training in Argentina 0 0 3 4 1 1 3 8
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 3 7 16 167
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 1 2 16 757 2 7 35 1,717
Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies 0 0 0 93 1 1 4 266
Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 2 77 0 0 12 228
It's not all fun and games: Feedback, task motivation, and effort 0 0 0 82 0 1 6 113
Love the Job... or the Patient?: Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care 0 1 1 40 0 1 2 57
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 2 4 84
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 2 45 1 1 8 154
Mass media and public services: the effects of radio access on public education in Benin 0 1 2 88 1 4 10 319
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 1 1 3 711 4 6 26 2,244
Organizing for prosperity: collective action, political parties and the political economy of development 0 0 0 80 1 1 2 146
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 0 0 2 217
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 1 9 687 3 8 37 2,113
Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries 0 0 1 7 0 3 8 24
Political Parties, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Reform 1 1 2 9 2 2 6 58
Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties 0 0 0 47 2 3 3 97
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 0 0 1 59 0 0 2 141
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 1 2 9 395
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 0 16 2 3 4 96
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 1 1 2 5 2 2 8 65
Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 1 59 3 4 7 244
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 1 7 1 2 5 32
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 1 5 7 300 5 10 18 969
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 1 1 4 535
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru 1 1 1 9 2 2 2 34
The development impact of the illegality of drug trade 0 0 0 232 0 1 1 508
The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa 0 0 0 87 0 0 2 195
The organization of political parties and the politics of bureaucratic reform 0 0 0 36 2 2 2 130
Trust, Collaboration, and Policy Attitudes in the Public Sector 0 0 0 23 0 16 25 64
Vote Buying or Campaign Promises?: Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited 0 0 0 29 0 0 8 84
Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending 0 0 1 10 0 0 3 26
Voter Responses to Fiscal Crisis: New Evidence on Preferences for Fiscal Adjustment in Emerging Markets 1 1 2 5 1 1 4 9
Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement: Evidence from a General Election 0 0 1 5 2 3 7 14
What does political economy tell us about economic development - and vice versa? 0 0 3 399 0 3 14 934
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 0 1 4 890
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers 0 1 1 18 0 1 3 95
Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America 0 0 0 5 0 1 2 18
Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict 1 1 1 76 2 2 2 193
Total Working Papers 9 21 84 7,774 58 135 425 23,569


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An experimental test of gaming incentives 0 0 2 2 2 2 8 8
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 0 1 11 211 4 12 32 564
Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates 0 0 6 21 1 9 28 87
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments 0 0 0 15 0 0 2 113
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies 0 0 3 13 2 5 22 68
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 214
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 6
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 1 1 3 2,187
Demand-side determinants of public spending allocations: Voter trust, risk and time preferences 0 0 0 8 1 2 7 48
Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services 0 0 0 1 2 4 12 483
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 5 8 57 552 10 29 156 5,644
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention 0 0 0 35 0 3 5 152
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 2 2 1 2 19 26
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 3 8 51 1,340 14 30 150 3,803
Institutions really don't matter for development? A response to Chang 1 1 1 71 1 1 4 147
Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 41 1 1 3 136
Introduction to the special issue: In memoriam Stephen Knack 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 24
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies 1 1 7 92 4 9 30 351
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 4 4 7 12 38 45
Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin 0 0 2 102 1 1 5 470
Media’s Influence on Citizen Demand for Public Goods 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2
New Tools in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions 0 0 2 5 0 0 8 14
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 2 204 1 1 9 648
Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 1 2 110 2 4 10 353
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 3 7 23 998
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 1 3 4 21 3 10 19 85
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 1 53
The Government Response to Informed Citizens: New Evidence on Media Access and the Distribution of Public Health Benefits in Africa 0 0 0 9 1 1 4 66
The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy 0 1 5 21 0 2 13 62
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 1 3 9 11 6 9 41 47
Vote buying and campaign promises 1 1 1 25 2 2 12 111
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 3
Voting in Firms: The Role of Agenda Control, Size and Voter Homogeneity 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 182
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 1 4 39 2,563
Younger parties, bigger spenders? Party age and political budget cycles 0 0 0 40 3 3 10 186
Total Journal Articles 13 29 172 3,754 80 177 740 20,344


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 3 75 8 13 24 358
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs 0 0 1 30 2 5 30 244
Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa 1 3 4 23 2 4 11 111
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3
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 8 112
Total Books 1 3 9 164 12 24 75 828


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 6 29
Formal versus informal institutions in economic development 0 1 23 531 2 7 41 1,217
Institutions: Mitigating Mistrust 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6
Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations 0 0 0 5 0 1 3 29
Navigating a Sea of Mistrust 0 1 1 1 1 5 7 8
Organization, Citizenship, and the Social Contract 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 4
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 13
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: The Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 77 2 2 2 456
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 1 1 1 1 2 6 18 67
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 21
The Power of Information 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4
Trust and the Economy 0 0 0 5 1 2 12 27
Trust and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Trust, Citizenship, and the Making of Good Public Policy 0 2 3 6 1 3 5 13
Trust, Social Cohesion, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 0 2 10 3 4 20 55
Total Chapters 1 5 35 653 14 33 137 1,959
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