effects of crises on the size and scope of government over both 5-year and 10-year horizons. We also estimate cross …-section regressions using 40-year (1970-2010) changes in government variables. In general, the estimated effects of crises on government … decreases in the extent of government regulations throughout an economy over a 10-year horizon. Also, over the 40-year period …

.e., those where groups live more spatially separately, have a substantially lower quality of government. In contrast, there is … no relationship between religious segregation and the government quality …

Voters would be better off if they removed politicians offering low-quality government by pursuing populist policies … and re-elected those who improved government quality with sustainable policies. In many political contexts, including … against those governments, no voter has an incentive to select politicians who promise high-quality government. By the same …

about misconduct by government officials, so that, even when each complaint is unlikely to succeed, more frequent complaints … encourage better behavior from officials. Newly assembled individual-level survey data from the World Justice Project show that … survey data on reporting crime and corruption. Citizen complaints might thus be an operative mechanism that explains the link …

government. In contrast, we find no relationship between religious segregation and the quality of government. Finally, we provide … evidence that trust is an important mediating factor between segregation and the quality of government. Generalized trust is …