Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income
With comments by Emily Dyson and Orlando Lazar
Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
With comments by Natalia Brigagão and Kendall Gardner
Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’
Does Training Public Employees in Ethics Enhance Integrity in Government? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh
Governments around the world conduct ethics trainings with public employees to enhance public integrity. Yet, causal evidence on the effectiveness of ethics trainings to enhance integrity in government remains rare. We address this gap through a field experiment with 1,400 police officers in Bangladesh. In collaboration with one Bangladeshi police district, we randomly assign half of the district’s police officers to a state-of-the-art ethics training. Our training trains and primes each participating police officer to be an ethical leader in the police district.
Tax Earmarking and Political Participation: Theory and Evidence from Ghana
Earmarking taxes for specific expenditure categories is thought to be a crucial factor in the development of the early modern European fiscal states and remains a widespread, yet fiscally rigid and oftentimes inefficient, policy tool. I explore a decidedly political logic to the puzzling prevalence of tax earmarking. In this paper, I test an initial micro-behavioural condition for this political logic of earmarking: that general fund taxation may produce more political mobilization than earmarking would, threatening political survival of governments in low-capacity states.
How erroneous beliefs cause authoritarian collapse: The case of Tunisia, January 14, 2011
State Action and Moral Attitudes Toward Sexual Consent
Authors: Eli Baltzersen, Francesca Jensenius, and Øyvind Søraas Skorge
Perceptual Accuracy and Issue Saliency
The accuracy of voters' perceptions of party issue positions is critical for the functioning of representative democracy, and as a result, it has received heightened scholarly attention in recent years, thanks mainly to the availability of survey data asking respondents about their perceptions of party left-right positions.
Someone like me? Disability identity and representation perceptions
Citizens from minoritized groups, including women and people of colour, tend to feel better represented by politicians who share their identity, often translating into electoral support. Is this also the case for disabled people, one of the largest yet often ignored minority groups in our societies? In-group affinity in representation can be driven by assumptions about shared preferences or by affective orientations and group consciousness.