democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 … integrated with democracies are, at the time of the survey, more supportive of democracy. In line with the change in citizens …' preferences, economic integration with democratic partners has a large, positive effect on a country's democracy score. Instead …

We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …

, 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 …

, as well as lagged endogenous variables, with controls for the level of income, the business cycle and demographics. We …

This paper formalizes the principle that persecution power of government may generate violent contests over it. We show …

Union, Hirohito's government launching a war against the United States, or Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 …