Working Papers/Books /Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
Visas titlar 301-320 av 437
-
Political Adiminstration: Cultures of fragmentation behind goal-failure
(2009-06)The seminal work of Herbert Kaufman claims that homogenous organizational cultures are crucial for goal achievement throughout organizations with a central-peripheral structure and a task-handling process which cannot be ... -
Political Appointments in 18 Democracies, 1975-2007
(2009-06)Scholarly literature holds a clear expectation of a growing politicization of the bureaucracy in mature democracies. It is also common for these students to warn against the negative effects produced by merging the roles ... -
Scandal Fatigue: Scandal Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy in Western Europe 1977-2007
(2009-07)We combine Eurobarometer surveys with contextual data from 19 countries and three decades, and find that elections are increasingly associated with major scandals. In the late 1970s few elections were associated with ... -
Bureaucracy, Politics and Corruption
(2009-08)Most comparative studies on corruption are geared towards the analysis of factors dealing with the selection and the incentives of actors taking policy decisions in a state. With few exceptions, such as Rauch & Evans (2000), ... -
Translation, social worlds and boundary objects
(2009-08) -
Rent Dependency: Bad for Quality of Government
(2009-09)This paper introduces quality of government rather than regime type as dependent variable in studies of the political effects of natural resources. It consists of two parts. First, it theorizes the role of fiscal dependency ... -
Perceptions of Corruption in Mass Publics
(2009-11) -
The Impact of Quality of Government as Impartiality: Theory and Evidence
(2009-11)In this paper I argue that Rothstein and Teorell’s (2008) concept of impartiality helps to integrate four conspicuously disparate strands in the literature on consequences of government institutions: the literatures on ... -
Social Protection Strategies in Efficient and Inefficient States
(2009-12)It is well known that social and labor market policies vary greatly among the advanced industrialized countries, not just in terms of overall spending but also in terms of the allocation of resources across different ... -
Hidden Treasure or Sinking Ship? Diagnosing the Study of Political Leadership
(2009-12)The study of leadership leads a rather languishing life in the discipline of political science. In this article, we explore the literature on political leadership in order to 1) identify the obstacles that have prevented ... -
Driving Forces behind Gender Equality - A Cross-Country Comparison
(2009-12)There is a growing body of research acknowledging the lack of good cross-country comparisons that contribute to the understanding of what drives change in society, i.e. what make some countries more gender equal than ... -
Exploring the Impact of Foreign Aid on Corruption: Has the 'Anti-Corruption' Aid been Effective?
(2009-12)Though many studies have referred to an ‘anti-corruption movement’ beginning in the 1990’s by major international organizations, none has empirically tested its effectiveness on corruption. The data show that from 1997 ... -
The Immigration Issue and Anti-Immigrant Party Success: Is Sweden the Odd Case Out?
(2009-12)The handling of the immigration issue by established parties and the electoral success of anti-immigrant parties are closely linked. Comparative research on anti-immigrant parties argues that articulation of the immigration ... -
Corruption, Happiness, Social Trust and the Welfare State: A Causal Mechanisms Approach
(2010-04)Does a more generous welfare state make people happier and increase their life satisfaction? Available empirical research gives a clear and positive answer to this question. This goes counter to many arguments that the ... -
Civil War Spain versus Swedish Harmony: The Quality of Government Factor
(2010-04)In 1936, while Sweden gave birth to one of the most peaceful solutions to class conflict (i.e. the Neo-Corporatist Welfare State) with the iconic signature of the Saltsjöbaden Accord, Spain gave birth to the most violent ... -
Which Dictators Produce Quality of Government?
(2010-05)This study deals with the effects of authoritarian regimes on state capacity or the quality of government (QoG): do some types of dictatorship (military, monarchy, single-party or personalist) perform better than others? ... -
No Law without a State
(2010-05)There is a large and growing interest in the prevailing cross-country differences many well-functioning institutions, such as judicial independence and high quality laws, and desirable social outcomes, such as a low ... -
Dimensions of Bureaucracy: A Cross-National Dataset on the Structure and Behavior of Public Administration
(2010-06)Scholars have emphasized the importance of having a “Weberian bureaucracy” for the socio-economic development of a country, but few attempts have been made to measure public administrations according to their degree of ... -
Transparency and Its Discontents: How IO Transparency Influences Domestic Resistance to Government Reforms
(2010-06)How do international organizations influence domestic transparency? Studies typically contend that in order to be instrumental in promoting good government institutions, international organizations have to embody these ...