Based on the perspective of transaction cost politics, corruption is essentially a political process, and development complex networks stems to certain extent from protection provided by informal rules corrupt transactions. These implementation mechanisms include first-party governance based normative trust, mutual stable constraint relations, independent third-party for agency fees, so on. Div...

• We study governance training intervention by World Bank in West Bengal villages. The led to the state government allocating additional resources program villages aligned ruling party. It intensified party switching behavior of rival incumbent politicians. Reelection rates incumbents went down due intervention. paper examines political economy consequences a third (World Bank) India. was capac...

Abstract We develop a new measure of party position based on scaling ideology tags supplied in infoboxes political parties’ Wikipedia pages. Assuming simple model tag assignment, we estimate the locations parties and ideologies common space. find that recovered scale can be interpreted familiar terms “left versus right.” Estimated positions correlate well with ratings from extant large-scale ex...

In 1954, Iraq’s industrial economy consisted mainly of “factories” employing one or two workers. With only fifty-five Iraqi engineering students graduating that year, there was no reason to believe that that situation would change anytime soon. But in twenty years the Iraqis were laying the foundation for a massive chemical-weapons industry, setting up a nuclear program that would eventually gr...

One way to establish trust in a service is to know what code it is running. However, verified code identity is currently not possible for programs launched on a cloud by another party. We propose an approach to integrate support for code attestation—authenticated statements of code identity—into layered cloud platforms and services. To illustrate, this paper describes TapCon, an attesting conta...