administration

Politicians who share power impose checks and balances on each other, improving local governance and leading to better economic outcomes.

Uncertainty in the identity of an evaluator discourages evaluator-specific influence activities and significantly improves state employees’ performance

An experiment in Pakistan finds that training decision makers in the benefits of empathy cultivates prosocial behaviour in the lab and the field

Major economic variances across present day Vietnam can be traced back to historical governance differences, highlighting the role of civil society

Bureaucratic output is negatively associated with monitoring and incentive schemes but positively associated with the autonomy of mid-level bureaucrats