Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we … democracies, the threat of insurgencies is not a binding constraint, and the model predicts no correlation between isolated … ways: broader power sharing (associated with better governance) means that any rents have to be shared more broadly, hence …

of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions …

World democracies widely differ in electoral rules, as well as in legislative, executive or legal institutions …