The VRA transformed local politics – and improved the lives of Black Americans.

Background Relatively little is known about subnational life expectancy disparities in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). We construct indicators of subnational disparities in life expectancy, o...

Existing work sees populist governments undermining the rule of law because they seek to dismantle institutional constraints on their personalistic plebiscitarian rule. We argue that populist rulers ...