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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 …
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This paper argues that high political competition does not necessarily induce policy makers to perform better as previous research has shown. We develop a political economy model and we show that when political competition is tight, and elected politicians can rely on more tax instruments, they...
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e-business and ended by e-government. Firms and consumers use internet to provide information and perform many of their … through e-government. In Spain in order to achieve the optimal technological level, municipalities and Autonomous Communities … (AC), have used financial aid from the Spanish Central Government and European Union institutions. This paper examines the …
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Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....
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government workers). Economists must lead by example by combating hategoatism, and that requires cleaning their own house first. …
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openness, more access to media and relatively higher wages of government employees are markedly less corrupt; while social …
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observe that corruption significantly decreases government spending on education, R&D and public health in China. We also …
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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 …
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government decentralization did not. There were differences in the signs, magnitudes, and significance of the influence of some …
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