Purpose Single-party regimes increasingly use Subnational Performance Assessments (SPAs) - rankings of provinces and districts0 - to improve governance outcomes. SPAs assemble and publicize information on local government performance to facilitate monitoring and generate competition among...

Does exposure to violence create more politically engaged citizens? In a PNAS paper, Barceló (2021) asks this provocative question and proposes an intricate and original socio-psychological theory to answer it. Barceló also employs a research design that seeks to account for reverse causality...