pandemic. While Duterte looks to have triumphed in his attack on human rights and press freedom, his government's record in … popular, with a September 2021 national survey reporting 81 per cent approval of his government's response to the pandemic and …

that, for comparative purposes, it measures government decision making at the local level rather than at the sub … overall ranking of countries on the closeness of their government to the people. The resulting index is associated with higher …

societal groups and the sovereign (i.e. the government or any other actor in power), defining their rights and obligations …

In 1974 Britain elected a Labour government pledged to expand public spending significantly. Labour followed its … programme for two years, but after that began to cut both government spending and taxation, anticipating the post-1979 … Conservative agenda. This paper examines the history of this government, using it as a test-case for various 'New Right' economic …

This paper provides a unique data set on local governance. This dataset measures government decisionmaking at the local … level, i.e. the level of government closest to the people. By contrast, the existing literature has focused on … decentralization index and are then adjusted for heterogeneity to develop a government closeness index. …