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Trust as state capacity : the political economy of compliance
Besley, Timothy; Dray, Sacha - 2022
This paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific … implement policies requiring voluntary compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper suggests that trust in government can … capacity is greater when citizens trust their government. The paper discusses alternative approaches to modelling the origins …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462001
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An Enabling Mechanism for the Creation, Adjustment, and Dissolution of States and Governmental Units
Hausken, Kjell; Knutsen, John F. - EconWPA - 2004
or reduce many of the coercive elements of government. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412496
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At stake with implementation: trials of explicitness in the description of the state
Muniesa, Fabian; Linhardt, Dominique - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech - 2009
Studies a number of aspects of the reform of public finance and public management in France (LOLF), with special attention to science and technology policy, using a pragmatist approach to the sociology of the state.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081415
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The Urgent Need for an Economics of “Hategoatism”
Payson, Steven - 2019
government workers). Economists must lead by example by combating hategoatism, and that requires cleaning their own house first. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023362
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Democracy and governance
Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956952
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Give Me Your Best Shot! Diffusion of Complete versus Booster Covid-19 Vaccines across US Counties
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023
government decentralization did not. There were differences in the signs, magnitudes, and significance of the influence of some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377533
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Democracy and governance
Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2018
The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies depending on how the two terms (of a political discourse) are defined, that when the definition of one term encompasses distinctive features of the other we find that governance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817112
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The urgent need for an economics of "hategoatism"
Payson, Steven - 2019
government workers). Economists must lead by example by combating hategoatism, and that requires cleaning their own house first. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152185
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BUREAUCRACY AND CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING
IONESCU, Luminiţa; CALOIAN, Florentin - In: Annals of Spiru Haret University, Economic Series 5 (2014) 1, pp. 17-23
Bureaucracy and corruption represent major causes of fiscal crises, and structural unemployment all over the world. According to WEF 2014 Global Risk Report, the bureaucracy has a high level in European countries and appreciation is growing that high historical rates of economic progress,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992013
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Political Competition, Policy and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the United States
Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten; Sturm, Daniel M. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
This paper develops a simple model to analyze how a lack of political competition may lead to policies that hinder economic growth. We test the predictions of the model on panel data for the US states. In these data, we find robust evidence that lack of political competition in a state is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694929