This paper studies the role of direct democracy in ensuring efficient and cost effective provision of goods and … public goods, and applying a fully non-parametric approach to estimate local government overall efficiency, the analysis … shows that more direct democratic activity is associated with higher government efficiency. This result suggests that more …

This paper explores the relationship between public sector efficiency (PSE) and the level of democracy, both … the effect of democracy on PSE for a panel dataset of 50 developing and developed countries over the period 1980-2000. Our … results suggest that the relationship between PSE and democracy is positive and statistically significant, thus confirming our …