government party, especially those in the federal Cabinet, and those of lower seniority. We develop a model featuring bargaining …

This paper studies how divided government - arising when control of the government branches is split between parties … they serve in a divided government than they are in a fully unified government. We find similar but smaller effects for …. However, in terms of policy implementation, we find evidence of moderation: when a unified Republican government loses a …

alternative mechanism known as divided government. By dividing government control between the executive and legislative branches … states from 1975 to 2000, it is shown that the probability of divided government is 10-15 percent higher when governors are … control an otherwise unaccountable executive. -- divided government ; lame duck ; term limit ; accountability …

We document that trust in public institutions - and particularly trust in banks, business and government - has declined … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …"We document that trust in public institutions-and particularly trust in banks, business and government-has declined …

In a country with weak institutional constraints on the executive, the real power might belong to the government … political accountability, the lower should be real authority at the bottom of the government hierarchy. Empirically, we find …

We study the consequences of franchise extension and ballot reform for the size of government in Western Europe between … did not matter for tax revenues per capita but might have expanded the size of government relative to GDP. -- suffrage … ; threat of revolution ; taxation ; size of government …

We present a theory to explain government procrastination as a consequence of its present-bias resulting from the … theory predicts that a government with a more strongly predominant party tends to procrastinate less. -- present …