DataGov is a database that contains governance indicators around the world. The DataGov indicators come from publicly … other persons interested in tracking and evaluating governance performance and the impact of reforms in their countries …

governance and political development; integration and economic development; ecology and sustainable development; equity and human …

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 …