Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual … responses from more than a hundred countries about public's perceptions of government's performance along various dimensions to … qualitatively alike in that greater decentralization in each case improves perceptions of the government performance. Federalist …

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 …