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 …

The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …

In 1974 Britain elected a Labour government pledged to expand public spending significantly. Labour followed its … programme for two years, but after that began to cut both government spending and taxation, anticipating the post-1979 … Conservative agenda. This paper examines the history of this government, using it as a test-case for various 'New Right' economic …

preferences for divided government. …