What political legacy can we expect from the Coronavirus pandemic? Drawing evidence from past epidemics, we find that … epidemic exposure in an individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in … experienced epidemics under weak governments with less capacity to act against the epidemic, disappointing their citizens. We …

agency model to illustrate how voters' gender bias can lead reelection-seeking female politicians to undertake different … policies to be less effective if decided by women, the model predicts that female politicians undertake less containment effort … than male politicians when voters perceive the threat as low, while the opposite is true when voters perceive it as serious …

registration data to study how ideological alignment between politicians and bureaucrats affects the personnel policies and … at the highest levels of government, we document significant partisan cycles and substantial turnover among political … government resemble a "Weberian" bureaucracy that appears to be largely protected from political interference. (iii) Democrats …