), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of … governance by focusing on four different issues : architecture; compliance; ability to promote reforms; and actual impact of RTAs …

), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of … governance by focusing on four different issues : architecture; compliance; ability to promote reforms; and actual impact of RTAs …

In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. We argue and … threat to a dictatorship, inducing it to yield to more redistribution and better governance. We bring this centered concept …

Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we … ways: broader power sharing (associated with better governance) means that any rents have to be shared more broadly, hence … capital city allows the elite to appropriate a larger share of output, so the costs of better governance for the elite, in …