with the (in)effectiveness of a government's healthcare-related responses to past epidemics. We document this mechanism …

to compete with the existing ineffective formal system. This implies that the central government needs to reorganize the …

When politicians have lower discount factors than voters, democratic elections cannot sufficiently motivate politicians … to undertake long-term socially beneficial projects. When politicians can offer incentive contracts which become … politicians time preferences. In the non-commitment case, incentive contracts may need to include a golden parachute clause …

-run and (ii) experts’ uncertainty increased after the election. Our results suggest that exceptional politicians influence …

office. Based on a sample of 356 inexperienced and experienced local politicians in West Bengal, India, we combine survey … in the attitudes of inexperienced politicians, a lower faith in political institutions and a greater distaste for … corruption can be seen among experienced politicians, particularly women. However, this seeming hardening in attitudes among …

resolving preference conflicts across individuals, politicians place substantially more importance on least-favored than on most …" which insists that choices merit intervention only if the lure of immediacy may bias intertemporal choice. Politicians' and …