for understanding how voters' experience with COVID affects their trust in the government and whether crises could be …Does exposure to crises reduce the citizens' trust in a country's president? Are individuals willing to accept fiscal … second wave a year later during the pandemic. Results provide no evidence of a decline in trust after the individual's health …

behavioral interventions could affect task compliance and productivity in the public sector. Second, they provide evidence that … and low incentives for task compliance. …

control other government branches, merit becomes more incentive-compatible: it enables executives to deprive challengers of … institutionally designed thus shapes their reform prospects: fragmented control over bad government can incentivize good government …

to 2020, and it considers the design features of the rules and information about numerical compliance. It provides … compliance rates across countries, years, and rules. On average, this study finds that compliance with rules aiming to constrain … debt ratios and structural balances is the highest, while compliance with fiscal balance and expenditure rules is the …

their trust in the government more than those who received a "negative" treatment (showing that the government was under …Does providing information improve citizens' perception about government transparency? Does all information matter the … same for shaping perceptions about the government? This paper addresses these questions in the context of an online …

and political trust both lead to fiscal policy preferences that constrain effective redistribution. Electoral …

online messages and the decline in political trust around the world. To evaluate this claim causally, we implement a variant … of the well-known trust game in a survey experiment with 4,800 respondents in Brazil and Mexico. Our design allows to … test the effect of social media on trust and trustworthiness. Survey respondents alternate as agents (politicians) and …

of procyclical policy. Previous work also explores how trust in politicians influences fiscal policy preferences. We find … higher government spending after positive shocks and be spared the costs of spending cuts after negative shocks. Finally, the …

campaign promises, in turn, leads voters to hold low political trust. Low quality government, and in particular populism … government: voters who express low trust are significantly more likely to prefer populist policies that reflect a low quality of …Voters would be better off if they removed politicians offering low-quality government by pursuing populist policies …