We study the consequences of populism for government performance and the quality of bureaucracy. When voters lose trust … assessment of the feasibility of their policies, worsening government performance and dismantling resistance from expert …, government performance, and bureaucratic appointments. …

, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences … evaluating how government/party ideology influences individual policies, previous econometric studies ignored initiatives in …

Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual … responses from more than a hundred countries about public's perceptions of government's performance along various dimensions to … qualitatively alike in that greater decentralization in each case improves perceptions of the government performance. Federalist …

political economics. The more fragmented a government, the higher its spending, deficits and debt. In this paper we investigate … constitutional rules for executive and legislation as well as budget rules shape the size of government and how the different rules … interact with fragmentation in determining government size. The empirical study of the role of fragmented governments for …

Do budget institutions play a role in explaining why government effectiveness is higher in some advanced countries than … budget centralization has a negative and significant effect on government effectiveness in OECD countries after accounting … for a list of control variables such as GDP per capita and government expenditure in addition to country and year fixed …

different measures of trust in government as well as including various controls, such as precautionary behaviors, first …