In elections around the world, large numbers of voters are influenced by promises or threats
that are contingent on how they vote. Recently, the political science literature has made …

This interdisciplinary Research Agenda contains state-of-the-art surveys of the field of
corruption and points towards an agenda for future research. This comprehensive work …

Elections are now common in low‐income societies. However, they are frequently flawed.
We investigate a Nigerian election marred by violence. We designed and conducted a …

This paper investigates direct and spillover effects of a social information campaign aimed at
encouraging residential water savings in Colombia. The campaign was organized as a …

We investigate the reaction of fiscal policy to the business cycle in a panel of 56 developed,
emerging and developing economies over 1990–2011. While we strengthen the established …

African elections often reveal low levels of political accountability. We assess different forms
of voter education during an election in Mozambique. Three interventions providing …

Two decades after the 'third wave of democratization', extensive violence continues to follow
elections in sub-Saharan Africa. Whereas national processes connected to pre-election …

What is the role of international migrants and, more specifically, of migrant networks in
shaping political attitudes and behavior in migrant sending countries? We propose that …

Do politicians manipulate the enforcement of conditional welfare programs to influence
electoral outcomes? We study the Bolsa Familia Program (BFP) in Brazil, which provides a …

This paper develops a new approach towards understanding and explaining the causes
behind the prevailing level of insecurity in Nigeria today. Today, the country is in the grip of …