"leakage" of funds between the government and beneficiaries in both NREGS and SSP programs. Beneficiaries overwhelmingly …

that could protect surplus ("security"). But the joint achievement of security and prosperity had to escape a paradox … conflict when defense capability is fixed, but may allow for security and prosperity when defense capability is endogenous …. Some economic shocks and military innovations deliver security and prosperity while others force societies back into a trap …

attacks involving at least one fatality on attitudes towards immigrants and government institutions. Comparing within … region that was attacked tend to express more trust in parliament and more satisfaction with the national government in the …

government spending. We parametrize the left policymaker as having a higher marginal political gain from increasing government … of government spending on average. These features imply large welfare losses for households …

. While a common view is that people should blame the government rather than the political system for bad crisis management …, an opposing view is that dissatisfaction with government performance may cause deeper dissatisfaction with democracy even … instrumental variable design. We find that dissatisfaction with the government, which is equally driven by economic and health …

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 … national happiness, but democratic quality is not. We also analyze other quality of government indicators. Confidence in …