government is correlated with happiness, however forms of democracy and government spending seem not. We further discuss three …This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup … generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show that government delivery quality is significantly correlated with …

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 …

The War for Independence left the National Government deeply in debt. The spoils from winning that war also gave it an … empire of land. So, post-1783, was the National Government solvent? Was its net asset position, land assets minus debt …. The results from the data series constructed indicate that the National Government was solvent, had more than enough land …

size of this political distortion. In this paper we study the determination of government debt and deficits in a dynamic …, a rent-seeking government over-saves and over-taxes along the equilibrium path relative to a benevolent government …

This paper develops a simple theoretical framework to study a set of regions, each with its own regional government …, who share a union or central government. These governments must decide whether to implement or discard a large number of … are insensitive to externalities. The key observation here is that the union government is insensitive to local benefits …

The federal government owns and administers 472, 892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower US, making it both … the country's largest land owner and among the largest by a central government among western democracies. This condition … federal government and the role of the environmental movement in the process. Market failure and externalities were asserted …