Effective states provide public goods by taxing their citizens and imposing penalties for non-compliance. However, accountable government requires that enough citizens are civically engaged. We study the voluntary cooperative underpinnings of the accountable state by conducting a two-level...

In the last decade, young people have been seen as the major suspects behind declining turnout rates, the desertion of parties grass roots members, a rising anti-party sentiment and the decline of associative life in Western democracies. For this reason, there is a renewed interest in how young...