Being in charge of public programs provides political mediators with resources that may give them political prominence – as pointed out in the literature. However, my goal in this article is to show how power can also bring ...

States usually differ markedly in terms of public goods provision and corruption. Why are some state governments able to provide adequate health and education services, but others tend to specialize in the provision of ...

Participatory Budgets, Public Policy Conferences and Public Policy Management Councils, among other participatory institutions in Brazil, are altering the configuration of processes that define and elaborate public policies, ...

We study the desirability of limits on the public debt and of political competition in an economy where political parties alternate in office. Due to rent-seeking motives, incumbents have an incentive to set public ...

© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.Literature on informal political institutions has focused on the national level, disregarding sub-national contexts where one can expect increased ...

This study contributes to the field of political marketing through the use of instruments based on the Theory of Forgotten Effects. According to this theory, when individuals attribute value to the incidences or connections ...