very little correlation between government expenditure and trust but a strong correlation with delivering on core tasks …. This leads us to conclude that it is not government spending per se that needs to increase to build trust, but rather … better focused government activities. …

The government and a non-governmental organization (NGO) can invest in the provision of a public good. Who should be …

Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual … responses from more than a hundred countries about public's perceptions of government's performance along various dimensions to … qualitatively alike in that greater decentralization in each case improves perceptions of the government performance. Federalist …