Does compliance with low-cost civic duties increase demand for social accountability? We address this question by … service-our measure of demand for social accountability. To probe the mechanisms explaining these patterns, we show that … compliance invoked by adherence to norms makes subjects feel more entitled to demand accountability and trust the government to …

This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 … nine distinct indices for each area of public policy, such as administration, health education, economic performance …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …