.e., those where groups live more spatially separately, have a substantially lower quality of government. In contrast, there is … no relationship between religious segregation and the government quality …

correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …

In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital. We … document this correlation, and present a model explaining it. In the model, distrust creates public demand for regulation …, while regulation in turn discourages social capital accumulation, leading to multiple equilibria. A key implication of the …

the heterogeneity of the effect of entry, contract enforcement regulation, and financial development on both the decision … the level of regulation and financial development and some individual characteristics that are important determinants of … entrepreneurship, such as gender, business skills, and social networks. We find that entry regulation moderates the effect of business …

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 …