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Top Five Stories of 2022

December 2022 / MIT GOV/LAB
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Measuring How Trust Shapes People’s Attitudes Towards Covid-19 Vaccines

December 2022 / Will Sullivan, Nuole (Lula) Chen
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MIT GOV/LAB Digest #10 – End of the year highlights: A new mini guide on all things TRUST

December 2022 / MIT GOV/LAB
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Political Science Graduate Students Use MIT GOV/LAB Funding to Conduct Dissertation Research

November 2022 / Will Sullivan, Stuart Russell, Blair Read
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How and Why State Workers Influence Policy and Politics in Jordan

November 2022 / Akshat Singh, Elizabeth Parker-Magyar

Supporting research on citizen engagement and government accountability

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Governance Innovation

Bureaucrat Behavior, Civic Engagement, Governance Innovation, Open Government, Trust & Accountability
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Practitioner-In-Residence

Bureaucrat Behavior, Civic Engagement, Open Government, Trust & Accountability, Voting & Elections

We share our documentation openly to promote collaboration and cross pollination

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Working Papers

Growth or Goods: Examining Tax Morale Among Property Owners in Lagos

November 2022 / Nicole Wilson, Leah Rosenzweig
Academic Articles

What Makes Anticorruption Punishment Popular? Individual-Level Evidence from China

November 2021 / Lily L. Tsai, Minh Trinh, Shiyao Liu

Combining evidence and methods from design and social science to co-develop governance solutions with practitioner partners

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Learning Cases

Crowdsourcing Content to Improve Vaccine Confidence and Uptake in the Global South

October 2022 / Kelly Zhang, Chaning Jang, Nicholas Otis, Lily L. Tsai, Alisa Zomer

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