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 …

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 …

we call the shrinking government effect: public debt grows faster than GDP, provisions of public goods and infrastructure …

explanations for economic growth and the quality of government …

that classification and illustrates how it can lead to higher taxes, larger government, and an inefficient mix of spending …

-trade attitudes. Second, this effect is smaller in countries with greater levels of government expenditure. The paper thus provides … government spending can bolster support for globalization by reducing the risk associated with it in the minds of voters …