Governance indicators have come under fire in recent years, especially the World Governance Indicators (WGIs). Critics present these…
If the Women’s Reservation Bill becomes law, then 181 out of 543 national legislators and 1370 out the 4109 state legislators will be women…
This paper provides a model of how media environments affect political polarization. We first develop a model of how media environments,…
Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have…
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female…
Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and…
Nations must often take stock of their achievements and forge ahead with new directions to
confront the changing realities in economics and…
Indians are used to seeing their filmstars sell products on TV but, probably for the first time, one of them is trying to sell informed…
We investigate the relationship between corruption and political stability, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. We propose a…
We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital
point of interest, a concept with wide applicability…