This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate … whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic …-levels, legal-origins, religious-dominations and press-freedom to account for government quality dynamics, of corruption …

components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity … account for government quality dynamics of corruption-control, government-effectiveness, voice and accountability, political … democracy that takes into account only the voice of the majority is better in government quality than autocracy, while a …

continuities in the economic, political, social and cultural environment of governance and public administration. This paper will …

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …

widely examined. However, the interplay between the involved firms in a collusive agreement, i.e., the governance dimension … paper empirically reveals that polycentric structures within the cartel governance may contribute to longer duration and … aspects: The entangled governance structures of collusive undertakings as well as the relevance of polycentricity in the firm …

such as land are government owned and household decisions are shared by the state, local institutions or social networks … institutions of producers in the grain surplus and deficit regions of the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are examined under … importantly by the potential of knowledge and institutions of producers to adjust to environmental changes, and support from …

), and World Governance Indicators (WDI). Food security is used as the dependent variable proxied by the number of the people …