that, for comparative purposes, it measures government decision making at the local level rather than at the sub … overall ranking of countries on the closeness of their government to the people. The resulting index is associated with higher …

size of government (in terms of consumption, debt and share to GDP) tends to increase in an attempt to buy out the … electorate, so that democracy becomes acceptable and ?the only game in town?. Our sample includes nine Latin American countries … time, the size of government shows signs of reduction. …

This paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific … reduces the government's cost of implementing a policy and may also increase the set of feasible policies. Thus, state … capacity is greater when citizens trust their government. The paper discusses alternative approaches to modelling the origins …

's institutions ('rules of the game'). Two stylized institutional variants of market selection and one of government selection are …

preferences as our measure of polarization. Political polarization is strongly associated with smaller government in democratic … countries, but there is no relationship between polarization and the size of government in undemocratic countries. The results … ; social cohesion ; size of government ; redistribution …

We address empirically trust as a determinant of support for government intervention. The central notion provided in … approximately 100,000 -115,000 individuals in 37 OECD- and EU-countries, we show that the impact of social trust on government …

This paper studies how divided government - arising when control of the government branches is split between parties … they serve in a divided government than they are in a fully unified government. We find similar but smaller effects for …. However, in terms of policy implementation, we find evidence of moderation: when a unified Republican government loses a …