...-use rights only In this paper, I assess conflicting claims over the selection method of local bureaucratic offices by studying the consequences of appointing vs. electing the people responsible for running elections. Unlike any other Western democracy, the US delegates election administration...

...Zhaotian Luo; Adam Przeworski The puzzle entailed in erosion of democracy by backsliding — a process in which the incumbent government takes every opportunity to reduce citizens’ ability to remove it by democratic means — is how a catastrophic situation can be gradually brought about by steps...

...Renard Sexton Numerous recent studies show that sharing politician or bureaucrat performance information with voters seldom succeeds at generating bottom-up pressure. One explanation is that local politics in developing democracies are typically mediated through local “development broker” elites...