This book is a story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation. The village sits in the Pearl River…
Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists' ability to measure corruption. This in turn has led to a new generation of…
Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of…
What factors determine the nature of political opportunism in local government in South India? To answer this question, we study two types…
In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an…
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the…
The introduction of electoral gender quotas in diverse contexts around the globe has attracted a great deal of scholarly and political…
Will reforms emerging from the 2008 crisis have a global impact and influence developing countries? Evidence suggests that this happened…
Does democratic governance expand wealth and prosperity? There is no consensus about this issue despite the fact that for more than half a…