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Internet, Censorship, and Corruption. The impact of online censorship on the internet’s potential to reduce corruption
(2016-12)Since the advent of the internet, the world has witnessed the explosive growth and development of technologies that provide us with ever-increasing means of accessing information and connecting with one another. This ... -
Local Democracy and Economic Growth
(2016)Theoretical work on the institutional sources of economic growth regards decentralization and democracy in a positive light. Despite this, empirical work shows that neither fiscal decentralization nor national democracy ... -
Going Historical: Measuring Democraticness before the Age of Mass Democracy
(2016)Most studies of democratic developments are limited to the period after World War II. However, political regimes varied according to different aspects of democracy long before the establishment of modern liberal mass ... -
Does Party Politicization of Corruption Affect Voter Turnout?
(2016-11)In this paper, we argue that the effects of corruption on voter turnout not necessarily have to be negative. We argue that voters’ willingness to participate in elections will increase when parties po-liticize the issue ... -
How Policy Legitimacy affects Policy Support Throughout the Policy Cycle
(2016-11)We analyze the importance of legitimacy and compare how drivers of public policy attitudes evolve across the policy process consisting of the input (i.e., the processes forgoing acquisition of power and the procedures ... -
How corruption shapes the relationship between democracy and electrification
(2016-11)One of the central questions in research on the drivers behind public good provision is how political regimes and institutions impact the provision of public goods. Previous research within this field has shown that ... -
Making Sense of Corruption Perceptions: Who to Ask (and About What?) - Evidence from Iceland
(2016-10)The extent of corruption in Iceland is highly contested. International corruption measures indicate a relatively small amount of corruption, while domestic public opinion suggest a serious corruption problem. Thus, uncertainty ... -
Suicide by Competition? Authoritarian Institutional Adaptation and Regime Fragility
(2016)While it is clear that contemporary authoritarian incumbents use democratic emulation as a strategy in the hopes of stabilizing and extending their tenure in power, this does not mean it is always effective. Indeed, an ... -
Public Trust in Elections: The Role of Election Administration Autonomy and Media Freedom
(2016)As multiparty elections have become a global norm, scholars and policy experts regard public trust in elections as vital for regime legitimacy. However, very few cross-national studies have examined the consequences of ... -
The Abandoned Trustees. Explaining Corruption in Local Government
(2016-09)This paper engages in the debate about how different ways of organizing relations between politicians and bureaucrats affect corruption. Research has established robust correlations between the political autonomy of ... -
Does Chief Executive’s Experience Moderate Consolidation’s Impact on Municipal Performance
(2016-09)A profound structural change is municipal merger. This come about through absorption of small units or merge of units to create a new entity. Both are intended to improve efficiency by taking advantage of economies of scale ... -
Is the quality of the outsourced public services contingent on the quality of bureaucracy?
(2016-07)Outsourced public services make up about half of the total public service delivery in OECD countries today and have increased dramatically over time. Reformers expected that outsourcing would both cut costs and increase ... -
Corruption, Gender Equality and Feminist Strategies.
(2016-07)The following arguments are presented. 1) Corruption in its various forms is a serious social ill. 2) Democracy is not a safe cure against corruption. 3) Increased gender equality seems to be one im-portant factor behind ... -
“Gimme Shelter”: The Role of Democracy and Institutional Quality in Disaster Preparedness
(2016)Natural disasters cause suffering for millions of people around the globe every year and as climate change unfolds the likelihood of natural catastrophes is increasing. While weather shocks, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, ... -
Democracy, Democratization, and Civil War
(2016)An influential body of scholarship has associated both democracy and democratization with civil war. Important findings include the so-called inverted U-shaped relationship between democracy-levels and civil war onset and ... -
Cooperation or Punishment. The Effects of Trust on Government Regulation and Taxation.
(2016-05)For many economists government intervention is linked to low levels of interpersonal trust and corruption, while, on the contrary, for many political scientists, government intervention is associ-ated to high trust and low ... -
The State in Democratic Breakdowns: Who, How, and Why
(2016-04)It is often invoked that in modern times the state is a prerequisite for democracy to endure. How-ever, cross-national research typically applies this as a static assumption rather than a dynamic caus-al proposition. ... -
The Early Modern Origins of Contemporary European Tax Systems
(2016-03)What explains variation in tax outcomes? Many studies emphasize the role played by institutions, focusing on those of relatively recent times. We argue that contemporary tax systems have deeper institutional origins in the ... -
Democratic advantages in corruption control. New Evidence from Anti-Corruption Cases across 154 Countries
(2016-03)Does democracy reduce corruption? While much recent research has focused on the ability of citizens in democracies to hold politicians accountable through regular elections, other institutional features of democracy such ... -
Sequential Requisites Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Sequential Relationships in Ordinal Data
(2016)This paper presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outcome variables across numerous combinations of ordinal variables in social ...