, on average. The results provide new objective indicators of government efficiency across countries, based on a simple and … quality influence the quality of government …

attacks involving at least one fatality on attitudes towards immigrants and government institutions. Comparing within … region that was attacked tend to express more trust in parliament and more satisfaction with the national government in the …

government spending. We parametrize the left policymaker as having a higher marginal political gain from increasing government … of government spending on average. These features imply large welfare losses for households …

. While a common view is that people should blame the government rather than the political system for bad crisis management …, an opposing view is that dissatisfaction with government performance may cause deeper dissatisfaction with democracy even … instrumental variable design. We find that dissatisfaction with the government, which is equally driven by economic and health …

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show that government delivery quality is significantly correlated with … national happiness, but democratic quality is not. We also analyze other quality of government indicators. Confidence in …

This paper develops a simple theoretical framework to study a set of regions, each with its own regional government …, who share a union or central government. These governments must decide whether to implement or discard a large number of … are insensitive to externalities. The key observation here is that the union government is insensitive to local benefits …

populist government may use trade policy to encourage capitalists to invest in the more labor-intensive industry. Since moving … government falls from power. The populist government may therefore choose to implement the less efficient but politically …