interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of … decreasing electoral misconduct improves multiple survey measures of attitudes toward government, including: (1) whether …

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 …

trust in others. I find some evidence that both prosperity and government involvement are higher in more trusting societies …. Moreover, holding these measures of trust constant, the association of government size with prosperity is positive until a …Using data on trust and trustworthiness from the 1990 wave of the World Values Survey, I first investigate a model of …

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …

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 …In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital. We …

the relationship between the size of government and growth by treating the distortion strictly as a tax on one form of … capital. The tax revenue is used to finance the acquisition of productive government capital. There is then a tradeoff between … turn negative. Tax revenue ("size of government") as a function of the tax rate will be given by a Laffer curve. Growth …

explanations for economic growth and the quality of government …

conditions, have resulted in a level of popular confidence in the government that makes political instability unlikely … quality of health care and education, could raise reported growth rates by as much as 60 percent. Finally, the government …

We provide a model for analyzing effects of the tax system and spending programs on the determination of government … improve taxpayer welfare because the system creates additional political pressure for suppressing the growth of government …