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Decentralization: An Antidote to Corruption in Water Services? A Comparative Study of the Enabling Environment for Corruption at Different Levels of Government
(2012-02)In the past two decades a common policy recommendation for improving water governance has been to shift the authority over water services to sub-national government departments. The advice to decentralize builds on ... -
Do Anti-Corruption Parties Matter? The electoral fate and policy impact of the third wave of niche parties in central and Eastern Europe
(2012-03)Niche parties have been increasingly successful during the last 30 years. Parties focusing on immigration and environment have long been in business and their impact on the political discourse as well as on policy outcomes ... -
Food Security and Elite-Ruler Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the impact of democracy on public goods provision
(2012-03)How does democracy impact on public goods provision? This question has provoked a wealth of empirical and theoretical investigation, but few answers that satisfactorily explain emerging patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most ... -
Legalize It: An argument for formalizing petty corruption wen state capacity is low
(2012-03)Corruption in the form of informal payments to bureaucrats for public services are a major problem around the world. There are however few theories of how countries can get rid of corruption. I argue that petty corruption ... -
Delivering Stability: Primogeniture and autocratic survival in European monarchies 1000-1800
(2012-04)Despite being the probably most common form of political rule in history, monarchies remain understudied in terms of how constitutional arrangements affect leader survival. In this paper, we examine if the principle of ... -
Taxation, Democracy and State-Building: How Does Sequencing Matter?
(2012-05)What is the relationship between democracy and taxation, under conditions of ‘reverse’ sequencing? Existing theories about taxation and democracy have presumed this relationship to be positive, but they have largely been ... -
Mass Education, State-Building and Equality: Searching for the Roots of Corruption
(2012-07)The roots of corruption are highly contested. We argue that there is a path dependence across almost a century and a half and present five theoretical arguments for the existence of a causal mechanism between universal ... -
Corruption in the Commons: Why Bribery Hampers Enforcement of Environmental Regulations in South African Fisheries
(2012-08)Few studies have explored on the micro-level why corruption hampers environmental regulations. The relationship between corruption and regulatory compliance is here investigated through confidential in-depth interviews ... -
What is the Best Way to Recruit Public Servants?
(2012-08)What is the best way to recruit public servants? Governments all over the world have the last decades pondered that question, as parts of increasing attempts to reform civil services and public administrations. Two opposing ... -
Understanding Satisfaction with the Way Democracy Works: Democracy versus Bureaucracy
(2012-08)The present study is focusing on system factors related to the input side of the democratic system, i.e. the electoral dimension, as well as factors related to the out-put side, i.e. the quality of government. Hence, we ... -
Poor Government and Poor Children: An analysis of government efficiency and sever child deprivation in 70 low-and middle-income countries.
(2012-09)During the past decades research on governance and quality of government (QoG) has highlighted the detrimental impact of bad governance on peoples‘ living conditions. At the same time, much thanks to remarkable efforts ... -
Professional Norms in African Contexts: The forgotten dimension in development theory
(2012-10)Western theories and Western practices have been claimed to not be appropriate in African con-texts. The reasons are argued to be a lack of legitimacy for the practices among public officials in these countries, as well ... -
Good Government in Mexico: The Relevance of the Gender Perspective
(2012-10)A number of studies explore the link between gender and good government, and confirm the cor-relation first observed by Dollar et al (2001): the number of women in elected office is related to levels of corruption. These ... -
The Wealth of Regions: Government Quality and Entrepreneurship in Europe
(2012-10)This paper argues that government quality – operationalized as the ability of government to treat all their citizens in an impartial way – levels the ‘playing field’ for economic agents with and without connections to ... -
Measuring High Level Democratic Principles using the V-Dem Data
(2015)While the definition of extended conceptions of democracy has been widely discussed, the measurement of these constructs has not attracted similar attention. In this paper we present new measures of polyarchy, liberal ... -
Free Media and Quality of Government: The role of media in promoting quality of government institutions in the European Union
(2012-10)While the relationship between freedom of the media and corruption has been established, it is open whether media freedom also contributes to higher quality of government. The basic argument in this article is that previous ... -
Party System Polrisation and Quality of Government: On the Political Correlates of QoG
(2012-10)The Quality of Government (QoG) research program has to date justified the importance of political context in the form of party system type, electoral rules, and political fractionalization for understanding variation in ... -
Corruption Voting and Political Context: Testing the Micro Mechanisms
(2012-10)The electoral consequences of individual perceptions of corruption are an important component of political accountability. In this paper I am concerned with what drives variation in corruption voting across countries. While ... -
What is Government Transparency? New Measures and Relevance for Quality of Government
(2012-12)As policymakers and researchers focus increasing attention on the importance of government transparency for accountability and good governance more generally, the demand for greater conceptual clarity and authoritative ...