The article examines the sanctions model of
principal-agent relations versus the selection model in which the
principal and the agent…
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…
The notion of a “resource curse” has been most commonly applied in explaining why many countries apparently blessed with abundant reserves…
“Sustaining Public Engagement: Embedded Deliberation in Local Communities,” features concrete examples of sustained community-led dialogue…
Large changes in fiscal policy: taxes versus spending. Alberto Alesina, October 2009, Paper. "We examine the evidence on…
This paper examines the impact of descriptive representation in comparative perspective. The goals are to establish (1) whether descriptive…