incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported … Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the …

We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …

We study the process of endogenous democratization from inefficient oligarchic systems in an economy where … the conditions under which democratization initially takes place. The political regime and the extent of redistribution … theoretical predictions. -- democratization ; oligarchy ; conflict ; consensual democracy ; inequality ; commitment …

(consensual crowding out). And finally, the more a government supports democratization, the lower is the individual's engagement … consensus ; democratization …

designed to capture the population’s desire for better governance. Using data from a tailored household survey, we examine the … those who emigrated to countries with better governance. -- International migration ; governance ; political accountability …

reached, and whether, conversely, democratization is likely to be an obstacle to the acceptation of market liberalization. Our …