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The conditions of successful civil society involvement in combating corruption: A survey of case study evidence
(2008-10)Corruption interferes with and distorts the political and implementation processes, often to the disadvantage of the already disadvantaged. Yet our understanding of the factors that might propel a political system from ... -
Why Bureaucracy? Political Power and the Emergence of Autonomous Bureaucracies
(2008-11)Why some bureaucracies are autonomous regarding personnel policies? New Political Economy approaches to public administrations tend to explain bureaucratic autonomy as a result of the political exchange between citizens ... -
Parties, Congress, and the Stock Market
(2008-11)Recent literature in both finance and political science has identified a series of systematic patterns in the way stock market responds to significant political events. The lack of a common theoretical core as well as ... -
Do You Believe Me? Public Sector Incentive Systems in Japan, Korea, Spain, and Sweden
(2008-12)This paper presents a theoretical hypothesis for understanding the success of performance-related incentives in the public sector, based on insights developed in the private sector. The paper argues that incentives are ... -
Does Democracy Produce Quality of Government?
(2009-01)This paper analyzes the effects of political regimes over state capacity or the quality of government (QoG): do democratic states perform better than authoritarian ones? Previous studies on this puzzle point to a nonlinear ... -
Preventing Markets from Self-Destruction: The Quality of Government Factor
(2009-01)Four interrelated arguments are presented to form a theory about the relation between the logic of markets, social efficiency and the quality of government. The first is that competitive markets with a certain set of ... -
A Network Model of Decision Making Applied to the European Union
(2009-03)Network structures constrain and enable political actors. Nonetheless, few models of decision making in international politics take network relations into account. We formulate and test a network model of decision making ... -
New Governance, New Democracy?
(2009-03)Across the western world there is today a search for new models of democratic governance. Central, regional and local institutions are redesigned. Public service systems are transforming into market-like organizations ... -
Why Legality Matters: The Limits of Markets and Governance Reform in the Public Sector
(2009-04)Market-based administrative reform and governance reform have aimed at increasing the efficiency of the public service and opening up new channels for exchange between the public administration and actors in its environment. ... -
We are All Customers Now: Understanding the Influence of Economic Theory on Public Administration
(2009-04)Market-based administrative reform has led to a sustained argument among in the public administration field. Some applaud this development on the grounds that it makes public service cheaper and more customer-oriented. ... -
Curbing Corruption through Social Welfare Program? The effects of Mexico's conditional cash transfer program on good government
(2009-05)Conditional cash transfer programs, an innovation in social welfare administration, have shown tremendous promise as a means of enhancing human capital and reducing leakage of public resources through corruption. While ... -
Electoral Systems: Assessing the Cross-Sectional Time-Series Data Sources
(2009-05)In this paper we compare and assess four freely available cross-sectional time-series data sets in terms of their information on the ballot structure, district structure and formula of the electoral system in use for ... -
Correlates of Corruption in India: Analysis and Evidence from the States
(2009-06)Several leading indicators of corruption point to a serious problem in India on whole. Yet what explains the substantial variance of corruption levels perceived and experienced by citizens across Indian states? Surprisingly ... -
Blaming Europe? Exploring the Variable Impact of National Public Service Dissatisfaction on EU Trust
(2009-06)European Social Survey data suggest that dissatisfaction with national public services has direct negative effects on EU trust in most EU15 countries, but also that there is significant country variation in their actual ... -
Unbundling secure property rights
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Deliberation or Jurisdiction? Testing the effectiveness of different routes towards gender equality
(2009-06)The point of departure for this paper is current debates in feminist research on hindering and enabling factors for the transformation of society in women-friendly directions. I develop two theoretically founded routes ... -
Corruption in the Carbon Market? International Organisations, Transparency and the Clash of Values
(2009-06)Are international organizations a positive force in improving good governance and reducing corruption? International organizations have traditionally been perceived as a positive force in international politics. This paper ... -
Corruption Kills
(2009-06)Various international organizations have documented the existence of corruption and similar practices in many different areas of the health care sector. Empirical studies show that in many poor countries over 80 percent ...