decreasing electoral misconduct improves multiple survey measures of attitudes toward government, including: (1) whether …

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 …

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

, indicating that most government insiders quickly wear out their welcome, and then drop once the minister is fully entrenched in …

about misconduct by government officials, so that, even when each complaint is unlikely to succeed, more frequent complaints … between education and the quality of government …

.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 …

utility, and use them to evaluate alternative features and forms of government in large international samples. We find that … life satisfaction is more closely linked to several World Bank measures of the quality of government than to real per … satisfaction. We test for differences in the relative importance of different aspects of good government, and find a hierarchy of …