Michel Crucifix, Anthony Cleve, Marc Demeuse, Jan Dhaene, Marilaure Grégoire, @dimitrileemans.bsky.social, Daniël Linders, Steven Vanduffel, et Michèle Vanmaele.

The 3rd, "Democracy and the quality of institutions", discusses whether democracy and democratic transitions can affect institutional outcomes. The evidence suggests that democratic transitions do lead to better institutional outcomes and that those improvements may materialize within a few years.

The 2nd, "Grease the wheels hypothesis", discusses the argument that corruption can be a second-best phenomenon allowing to compensate other distortions. It surveys the theoretical and empirical literatures and discusses the challenges involved in testing competing theories.

The 1st, "Elections and norms of behaviour", with @mgiani.bsky.social, surveys the recent literature on the relationship between social norms and electoral outcomes. It argues that the relation goes both ways: social norms can affect electoral outcomes and vice versa.