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Women’s Empowerment and Foreign Aid Effectiveness
(2018-10)The longstanding debate on whether foreign aid promotes development suggests that aid’s efficacy depends on conditions in recipient states. Advocates of gender equality argue that empowering women is desirable not only in ... -
Exploring Shades of Corruption Tolerance: Three Lessons from Iceland and Sweden
(2018-10)It is sometimes argued that tolerance for corruption is universally low, i.e. that corruption is shunned among all individuals, in all societies and cultures. Against this backdrop, this paper engages in two interrelated ... -
Trust, Values and Quality of Government. Exploring Interactions Between Individual and Contextual Level Determinants of Environmental Tax Support
(2018-06)Environmental taxes are argued to be the key to more effective environmental protection in developing countries. This paper investigates whether such taxes have the necessary public support to be successfully implemented ... -
What Do Citizens Think About Redistribution and Aid Within the EU? Description and Highlights of a Pan-European Citizen Survey on Public Support for Cohesion Policy
(2018-02)This paper introduces the main findings and methodology of a new large-scale pan European survey capturing citizens’ support for EUs efforts to reduce inequality between richer and poorer regions in Europe, cohesion policy. ... -
Quality of Government in EU Regions: Spatial and Temporal Patterns
(2018-02)A wave of recent cross-national research has pointed to the positive consequences for countries with high levels of ‘quality of government’ (QoG), broadly defined, such as corruption, impartiality, and quality of public ... -
State Capacity, Democracy and Public Good Production: The case of Child Mortality
(2018-12)The paper examines government-business relationships by focusing on the effect of the organizational design of public bureaucracies on entrepreneurship in Russia. Using novel data from an expert survey on bureaucratic ... -
Public Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Russia’s Region
(2018-12)The paper examines government-business relationships by focusing on the effect of the organizational design of public bureaucracies on entrepreneurship in Russia. Using novel data from an expert survey on bureaucratic ... -
The electoral consequences of institutional failure: A comparative study of audits, rulers, and voters in Swedish municipalities
(2018-12)Electoral accountability is widely considered an essential element for ascertaining institutional quality. Nevertheless, and contrary to this notion, a growing body of empirical research finds weak or limited support for ... -
Accepting the Inevitable or Resisting Quietly? Responses to Corruption and Competence in Highly Corrupt Environments
(2018-11)The literature studying citizen responses to exposed political corruption is rapidly growing. While some studies explore how information credibility and group identities can reduce the electoral impact of the exposure of ... -
Bureaucratic Structures and Organizational Commitment of Senior Public Officials: Evidence from a Cross-National Study of 20 European Countries
(2018-11)In recent years there has been growing scholarly interest in the effects of bureaucratic structures on corruption, socioeconomic development, government effectiveness, policy implementation, and support for democracy. ... -
Moving beyond Categorical Measures of Gender in Corruption Research
(2018-11)There are a growing number of studies with the ambition to present causal reasoning linking the presence of women in political organizations to reductions in levels of corruption. The theoretical mechanisms proposed are ... -
Generalized Nonlinear Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences
(2019)Difference-in-difference-in-differences (DiDiD) allow for the correction of unmeasured con-founding and function as a robustness check for difference-in-differences (DiD) techniques. However, this technique is not scale ... -
Varieties of Forecasts: Predicting Adverse Regime Transitions
(2019)This article introduces the V-Forecast project, the forecasting intuitive of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) institute. In this the initial year of the V-Forecast project, we provide two-year ahead forecasts of the risk ... -
Gendered Accountability: When and Why Do Women's Policy Priorities Get Implemented?
(2019)The past two decades have seen dramatic increases in women occupying positions of political power. Such developments have been welcomed as a means of achieving better outcomes for women in their everyday lives. We interrogate ... -
Regime Legitimation Strategies (RLS) 1900 to 2018
(2019)In this paper we introduce new expert-coded measures of regime legitimation strategies for 179 countries in the world from 1900 up until 2018 that are comparable across time and space. Country experts have rated the extent ... -
When Democracy has a Fever: States of Emergency as a Symptom and Accelerator of Autocratization
(2019)States of emergency grant chief executives the power to circumvent democratic constraints in order to combat existential threats. As such they are ideal tools to erode democratic institutions while maintaining the illusion ... -
How and How Much Does Expert Error Matter? Implications for Quantitative Peace Research
(2019)Expert-coded datasets provide scholars with otherwise unavailable cross-national longitudinal data on important concepts. However, expert coders vary in their reliability and scale perception, potentially resulting in ... -
Estimating Latent Traits from Expert Surveys: An Analysis of Sensitivity to Data Generating Process
(2018)Models for converting expert-coded data to point estimates of latent concepts assume different data-generating processes. In this paper, we simulate ecologically-valid data according to different assumptions, and examine ...