about misconduct by government officials, so that, even when each complaint is unlikely to succeed, more frequent complaints … encourage better behavior from officials. Newly assembled individual-level survey data from the World Justice Project show that … between education and the quality of government …

In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital. We … model is that individuals in low trust countries want more government intervention even though the government is corrupt. We … government's role, as well as on changes in beliefs and in trust during the transition from socialism …

.e., those where groups live more spatially separately, have a substantially lower quality of government. In contrast, there is … no relationship between religious segregation and the government quality …

explanations for economic growth and the quality of government …

, on average. The results provide new objective indicators of government efficiency across countries, based on a simple and … quality influence the quality of government …

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and … generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show that government delivery quality is significantly correlated with …