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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 …
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We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been studied in detail so far. We put together a conceptual framework to guide our analysis that highlights what we call the Montesquieu, Weber and Smith channels. Each of these...
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The objective of this paper is to investigate which factors ] macroeconomic, policy ]related or institutional ] foster the implementation of structural reforms. To this objective, we look at episodes of structural reforms over three decades across 40 OECD and EU countries and link them to such...
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measures are constructed as distinct changes in four policy areas: government size, the rule of law, openness and regulation …. Our results indicate that while reforms of government size are not robustly related to satisfaction with democracy …
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Formal conceptions of state capacity have mostly focused on indirect measures of state capacity - by, for instance, using the state's fiscal or extractive capacity as a proxy for its overall capacity. Yet, this input or extractive view of state capacity falls short, especially since...
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Formal conceptions of state capacity have mostly focused on indirect measures of state capacity - by, for instance, using the state's fiscal or extractive capacity as a proxy for its overall capacity. Yet, this input or extractive view of state capacity falls short, especially since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463568
In a country with weak institutional constraints on the executive, the real power might belong to the government … political accountability, the lower should be real authority at the bottom of the government hierarchy. Empirically, we find …
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improves government popularity while negative evaluations decrease satisfaction with the government. Voters take the (current ….e. voters punish the government for a bad economy but also reward them in good times. Finally, we show that popularity functions …
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scientific and social order more broadly, of government interference with the PCR processes of science. Finally, we use the … history of the United States federal government's development of standardized dietary guidelines for American consumers and …
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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...
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