period, terror attacks have increased. Using data from European Social Surveys (ESS), we examine the effects of terror … attacks involving at least one fatality on attitudes towards immigrants and government institutions. Comparing within … immigrants. Consistent with "rally-around-the flag" effects documented by political scientists, ESS respondents living 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 … and support for different types of regimes. To estimate causal effects, we leverage experimental treatments using an …

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 …

This paper develops a simple theoretical framework to study a set of regions, each with its own regional government …, who share a union or central government. These governments must decide whether to implement or discard a large number of … are insensitive to externalities. The key observation here is that the union government is insensitive to local benefits …

political institutions and leaders, but not in other institutions or individuals. We find similar negative effects on confidence … provide evidence of this mechanism by showing that weak governments took longer to introduce policy interventions in response …

populist government may use trade policy to encourage capitalists to invest in the more labor-intensive industry. Since moving …Most populist regimes in Latin American countries used trade policy to redistribute income, despite being less … capital is costly, those capitalists will support the continuation of the protectionist trade policy even after the populist …

This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector … most pronounced among geographically-concentrated firms. The effects are economically meaningful and the mechanism … impact of government spending on private sector economic activity …