A policy experiment in India suggests that placing female leaders in positions of power can dramatically change public attitudes.
When the stakes are high, it is no surprise that battling political opponents use whatever support they can garner from economists and…
We investigate the impact of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on different forms of political participation, using data from Italy. We…
Book abstract: Muslim Secular Democracy: Voices From Within provides an expansive understanding of secularism in the Muslim World by…
Institutional reforms are common across the globe. Think of efforts to build new governments in Afghanistan and Iraq; or decades worth of…
Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework…
Book abstract: The Handbook of Organizational Economics surveys the major theories, evidence, and methods used in the field. It displays…
Africa's democratic transition is back in the spotlight. The concern is no longer the stranglehold of autocrats, but the hijacking of the…
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is aff ected by country characteristics. Using…