places that are closer to the capital. Consistent with lower accountability, there is also evidence that there is more money … in state-level political campaigns in those states with isolated capitals. We find that the role of media accountability …

In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. We argue and … threat to a dictatorship, inducing it to yield to more redistribution and better governance. We bring this centered concept …

Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we … ways: broader power sharing (associated with better governance) means that any rents have to be shared more broadly, hence … capital city allows the elite to appropriate a larger share of output, so the costs of better governance for the elite, in …

Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we … ways: broader power sharing (associated with better governance) means that any rents have to be shared more broadly, hence … capital city allows the elite to appropriate a larger share of output, so the costs of better governance for the elite, in …

We investigate the links between capital cities, conict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption …

We investigate the links between capital cities, conict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption …

In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. around the policy … governance. We bring this centered concept of population concentration to the data through the Centered Index of Spatial …