This paper studies how political fragmentation affects government stability. We show that each additional party with … representation in Parliament increases the probability that the incumbent government is unseated by 4 percentage points. Governments … with more resources at their disposal for bargaining are less likely to be replaced. When they are, new government leaders …

We study how partisan alignment across levels of government affects coalition formation and government stability using … alignment on both government formation and stability. Alignment increases the probability that the most-voted party appoints the … mayor and decreases the probability that the government is unseated during the term. Aligned parties also obtain sizeable …

very little correlation between government expenditure and trust but a strong correlation with delivering on core tasks …. This leads us to conclude that it is not government spending per se that needs to increase to build trust, but rather … better focused government activities. …

that hindsight bias causally reduces trust in government. …

importance of effort versus luck for success (fairness), the trust in government institutions (effectiveness) and the perceived …

A country's form of government has important economic and political consequences, but the determinants that lead … proceeds in two steps. First, we identify the survival probability of the existing form of government (drawing on a …. -- constitutional change ; institutional dynamics ; form of government ; endogenous constitutions ; separation of powers …