institutions. Drawing on micro-level panel data from Germany spanning an 18-month period from the onset of the pandemic, we show … trust in institutions. We present empirical evidence to argue that the underlying mechanism is a perceived illegitimate …

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from recourse to formal institutions of conflict …

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …

The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused … incidences institutions become sources of private gains and lose their value-creation role and capacity. We offer a typology of … governments and societies fail to serve as institutions' guardians. Implications misused institutions for economic and political …

officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability …

initial inequality on institutions and that better quality of institutions might reduce inequality for some groups. In general …