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A review of the political economy of governance: from property rights to voice 0 0 0 530 2 3 4 1,118
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 0 109 0 0 2 432
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 7 8 10 789
Checks and balances, private information, and the credibility of monetary commitments 0 0 0 106 1 3 4 973
Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy 0 0 0 125 2 6 7 429
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 3 294 3 7 27 1,442
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 5 24
Democracy, Democratic Consolidation and Military Spending 0 0 1 5 0 2 4 45
Democracy, credibility and clientelism 1 1 2 451 4 9 13 1,208
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor 5 6 6 274 7 14 21 675
Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? 0 1 2 270 5 8 13 564
Do informed citizens receive more...or pay more ? the impact of radio on the government distribution of public health benefits 0 0 0 75 3 4 5 191
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 1 2 3 228
Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention 0 0 0 57 1 2 2 175
Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis 0 0 0 94 1 1 2 255
Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations 0 1 1 10 0 3 7 21
Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ? 0 0 1 11 1 2 7 78
General Skills Training for Public Employees: Experimental Evidence on Cybersecurity Training in Argentina 0 0 0 4 5 8 9 15
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 1 1 4 33
Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying 0 0 3 18 3 7 16 171
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 2 3 15 759 3 8 34 1,723
Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies 0 0 0 93 1 2 5 267
Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 2 77 1 2 14 230
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 0 3 5 60
Love the job... or the patient ? task vs. mission-based motivations in health care 0 0 2 8 0 0 2 59
Love the job... or the patient? Task vs. mission-based motiviations in healthcare 0 0 0 27 3 5 8 89
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 0 2 45 6 7 13 160
Mass media and public services: the effects of radio access on public education in Benin 0 0 2 88 0 3 12 321
Mellowing with tenure? Socialization increases prosocial behavior in public organizations 0 0 0 23 1 1 1 65
New tools and new tests in comparative political economy - the database of political institutions 1 2 4 712 10 18 35 2,258
Organizing for prosperity: collective action, political parties and the political economy of development 0 0 0 80 2 4 5 149
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 3 4 6 221
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 2 2 10 689 4 8 38 2,118
Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Evidence from Latin American Countries 0 0 1 7 1 2 8 26
Political Parties, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Reform 0 1 2 9 0 6 9 62
Political budget cycles and the organization of political parties 0 0 0 47 1 4 5 99
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: the Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 237 2 3 3 689
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 8 397
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 1 1 5 5 10 15 73
Pyramid Capitalism: Cronyism, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt 0 0 0 16 3 6 8 100
Pyramid capitalism: political connections, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 0 0 1 59 4 10 13 251
Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits 0 0 0 41 0 0 6 125
Social Trust and Electoral Populism: Explaining the Quality of Government 0 0 0 7 4 5 8 36
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 1 7 300 2 14 25 978
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 1 2 4 536
The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru 0 1 1 9 2 5 5 37
The development impact of the illegality of drug trade 0 0 0 232 3 5 6 513
The ethnicity distraction ? political credibility and partisan preferences in Africa 0 0 0 87 1 2 4 197
The organization of political parties and the politics of bureaucratic reform 0 0 0 36 2 6 6 134
Trust, Collaboration, and Policy Attitudes in the Public Sector 0 0 0 23 1 3 28 67
Vote Buying or Campaign Promises?: Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited 0 0 0 29 1 1 7 85
Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending 0 0 1 10 2 2 4 28
Voter Responses to Fiscal Crisis: New Evidence on Preferences for Fiscal Adjustment in Emerging Markets 0 3 4 7 2 5 7 13
Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement: Evidence from a General Election 0 0 1 5 0 2 4 14
What does political economy tell us about economic development - and vice versa? 0 0 2 399 2 2 14 936
When do Legislators pass on"Pork"? the determinants of legislator utilization of a constituency development fund in India 0 0 2 96 1 1 5 227
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 2 5 892
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers 0 0 1 18 2 3 6 98
Why Do Voters Support Procyclical Fiscal Policies? Experimental Evidence from Latin America 0 1 1 6 4 5 7 23
Why follow the leader ? collective action, credible commitment and conflict 0 1 1 76 1 4 4 195
Total Working Papers 11 25 86 7,790 130 268 579 23,779


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An experimental test of gaming incentives 0 0 2 2 4 10 16 16
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 0 0 9 211 5 10 35 570
Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates 1 1 6 22 2 5 26 91
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments 0 0 0 15 0 1 3 114
Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies 0 1 4 14 2 9 27 75
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 2 1 2 3 8
Collective Action, Political Parties, and Pro-Development Public Policy 0 0 0 0 7 9 11 222
Comment on "Evaluating Recipes for Development Success": The Policy Usefulness of Institutional and Political Analyses of Development 0 0 0 19 4 4 4 113
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 0 687 1 5 7 2,191
Demand-side determinants of public spending allocations: Voter trust, risk and time preferences 2 3 3 11 3 5 8 52
Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services 0 0 0 1 6 8 16 489
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 4 13 48 560 17 46 141 5,680
Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention 0 0 0 35 1 3 8 155
Elections, Special Interests, and Financial Crisis 0 0 0 57 2 2 4 174
Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations 0 0 1 2 1 6 22 31
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 4 9 40 1,346 23 55 154 3,844
Institutions really don't matter for development? A response to Chang 0 1 1 71 0 2 5 148
Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 41 1 2 4 137
Introduction to the special issue: In memoriam Stephen Knack 0 0 0 2 1 3 5 27
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies 0 2 7 93 1 10 30 357
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises 0 1 5 5 2 13 39 51
Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin 0 1 3 103 1 4 7 473
Media’s Influence on Citizen Demand for Public Goods 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3
New Tools in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions 0 1 2 6 6 8 15 22
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 1 204 3 11 17 658
Policy misperceptions, information, and the demand for redistributive tax reform: experimental evidence from Latin America 1 2 2 2 3 8 8 8
Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service 0 0 1 110 2 7 13 358
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 1 8 23 1,003
Protection Against a Capricious State: French Investment and Spanish Railroads, 1845–1875 0 0 0 15 1 1 3 56
Pyramid capitalism: Cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt 1 2 4 22 6 14 29 96
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 0 1 1 10 0 4 7 69
The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy 1 1 4 22 7 8 19 70
The use of video vignettes to measure health worker knowledge. Evidence from Burkina Faso 0 0 0 3 3 3 5 40
Transparency and grand corruption: Lessons from the Colombia school meals program 0 1 9 11 5 14 40 55
Vote buying and campaign promises 1 2 2 26 2 6 13 115
Voting age, information experiments, and political engagement: Evidence from a general election 0 1 1 1 7 13 15 15
Voting in Firms: The Role of Agenda Control, Size and Voter Homogeneity 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 183
When Do Legislators Pass on Pork? The Role of Political Parties in Determining Legislator Effort 0 0 1 8 2 2 3 24
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 4 7 42 2,569
Younger parties, bigger spenders? Party age and political budget cycles 0 0 0 40 0 3 8 186
Total Journal Articles 15 43 157 3,784 138 337 844 20,601


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 5 5 5 9 18 27 27
Better Spending for Better Lives: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Do More with Less 0 0 3 75 5 27 41 377
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs 0 0 1 30 2 7 24 249
Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa 0 1 4 23 1 3 12 112
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Shortchanging the Future: The Short-Term Bias of Politics 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 7
Trust: The Key to Social Cohesion and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 0 1 36 1 1 8 113
Total Books 3 6 14 169 21 61 119 886


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A Primer on Trust: Measures and Determinants 0 0 3 5 4 4 8 12
Collective action and government: still a mystery 0 0 1 10 0 0 3 29
Formal versus informal institutions in economic development 0 2 22 533 1 8 43 1,223
Institutions: Mitigating Mistrust 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 9
Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations 0 0 0 5 2 4 7 33
Navigating a Sea of Mistrust 0 0 1 1 1 3 9 10
Organization, Citizenship, and the Social Contract 0 0 1 1 1 2 5 6
Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 14
Politics and the Determinants of Banking Crises: The Effects of Political Checks and Balances 0 0 0 77 1 3 3 457
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 1 10 22 75
The Power of Information 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 6
Trust and the Economy 0 0 0 5 2 3 13 29
Trust and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 5
Trust, Citizenship, and the Making of Good Public Policy 0 0 3 6 0 1 5 13
Trust, Social Cohesion, and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean 0 0 1 10 2 6 20 58
Total Chapters 0 3 33 655 20 55 162 2,000
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