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 uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China’s consumption has been low … one form or the other, these distortions have implied significant transfers from households to firms. If China is to …