This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during … the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to … in a country's strategic value to the U.S. from the interaction of its political alliance to the U.S. and membership on …

I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General …/WTO membership on the coefficient of variation in trade computed over 25-year samples, controlling for a number of factors. I also … use a comparable multilateral data set. There is little evidence that membership in the GATT/WTO has a significant …

We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT. We review recent …

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 …

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

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 …