We usually consider it progress when a country begins to shift from an autocratic to a democratic form of government …. However, the introduction of elections and other early trappings of democracy often has the perverse effect of exacerbating … democracy and capitalism--is to move to a governance structure based on impersonal rules that apply in the same way to everyone …

, an opposing view is that dissatisfaction with government performance may cause deeper dissatisfaction with democracy even …Beyond its immediate impact on public health and the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has put democracy under stress …. While a common view is that people should blame the government rather than the political system for bad crisis management …

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 …

. Perfect democracy, where current members of the government do not have an incumbency advantage or special powers, always leads … to the emergence of the most competent government. However, any deviation from perfect democracy destroys this result … least competent government can persist forever in office. Moreover, a greater degree of democracy may lead to worse …

likely to recall that the newly available 988 government hotline is available for suicidal crises, a result highlighting the …

cannot be internalized though government subsidies. This paper describes a mechanism that transfers fiscal externalities from … the government to private parties. Such transfers generate incentives within the private sector to reduce inefficiencies …