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Municipality Merger and Local Democracy: An assessment of the merger of Japanese municipalities.
(2017-07)Municipal mergers have been widely used as a tool for administrative reform (Fox and Gurley-Calvez 2006; OECD 2014). While municipal mergers have been planned or implemented with the hope of increasing efficiencies in ... -
Rediscovering Bureaucracy: Bureaucratic Professionalism, Impartiality, and Innovation
(2017-07)This study examines an empirical link between bureaucratic structures and country-level innovation outputs. Although there has been growing scholarly attention to public sector innovation, we still have a limited understanding ... -
Procurement and Competition in Swedish Municipalities.
(2017-07)This paper asks if low political competition is associated with manipulation of public procurement pro-cesses. Using unique Swedish municipal data from 2009 to 2015, it demonstrates that when one party dominates local ... -
Women and Risk-Taking Behavior in Local Public Finance
(2017-07)This study examines how female representation in local elected (mayor and legislature) and administrative (mid-level manager) positions influences municipal financial decision making in 764 Japanese city-level governments. ... -
State Capacity, Incumbent Turnover and Democratic Change in Authoritarian Elections
(2017)Under what conditions do elections lead to democratization or conversely, sustain authoritarianism? State capacity may be a crucial intervening variable affecting the democratizing power of elections in authoritarian ... -
Information and Revolution
(2017)How does the Internet affect authoritarian regimes? This article argues that while the Internet has made mass mobilization easier than ever, its spread has also counter-intuitively allowed savvy authoritarian regimes to ... -
Regimes In the World (RIW): A Robust Regime Type Measure based on V-Dem
(2017)Classifying political regimes has never been as difficult as in this day and age. Most regimes in the world now hold de-jure multiparty elections with universal suffrage. Yet, in some countries these elections ensure that ... -
The Autocratic Trust Bias: Politically Sensitive Survey Items and Self-censorship
(2017)Because of the perceived risk of repression some survey questions are likely sensitive in more autocratic countries while less so in more democratic countries. Yet, survey data on potentially sensitive topics are frequently ... -
The V-Dem Party Institutionalization Index: a new global indicator (1900-2015)
(2017)Because levels of party institutionalization may affect the availability of good data, existing datasets have limited reliability and coverage. To overcome these problems, we introduce the V-Dem Party Institutionalization ... -
Agency Problems and the Politics of Administrative Reorganization
(2017-05)While scholars have long argued that political uncertainty leads governments to enact organizational structures that insulate agencies from future control by opposing groups, they have paid less attention to what governments ... -
Constraining Governments: New indices of vertical, horizontal and diagonal accountability
(2017)Accountability - constraints on the government’s use of political power - is one of the cornerstones of good governance. However, conceptual stretching and a lack of reliable measures have limited cross-national research ... -
Do City Managers Improve Government Performance?
(2017-04)Why do some local governments perform better than others that are socioeconomically, culturally, and geographically close? This paper examines variation in local government performance across 209 Catalan municipalities ... -
Institution building in challenging contexts – energy for development in Tanzania
(2017-04)The Sustainable Development Goal 7 includes achieving universal electricity access, which will require the deployment of renewable energy sources for small-scale and decentralized electricity provision. However, rural ... -
V-Dem Comparisons and Contrasts with Other Measurement Projects
(2017)For policymakers, activists, academics, and citizens around the world the conceptualization and measurement of democracy matters. The needs of democracy promoters and social scientists are convergent. We all need better ... -
Autocrats and Skyscrapers: Modern White Elephants in Dictatorships
(2017)Political leaders often have private incentives to pursue expensive and socially wasteful "white elephant" projects. Our argument highlights that weak accountability mechanisms allow autocratic leaders to more easily realize ... -
The Link between Appointments and Appropriations in the Politics of Administrative Design.
(2017-04)In this paper, we analyze the relationship between political control of agency decision-making and the size of agency budgets. Scholars of bureaucratic and distributive politics have respectively highlighted how political ... -
Democracy and Corruption: A Global Time-Series Analysis with V-Dem Data
(2017)Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, numerous scholars have found empirically that corruption decreases at high levels of democracy but actually increases at low levels. A key weaknesses of studies ... -
Explaining the Erosion of Democracy: Can Economic Growth Hinder Democracy?
(2017)Economic growth has become one of the leitmotivs academicians and pundits ask once and again to assess democratic endurance over time. While large portion of the literature posits that economic growth is positive for ... -
IRT models for expert-coded panel data
(2017)Data sets quantifying phenomena of social-scientific interest often use multiple experts to code latent concepts. While it remains standard practice to report the average score across experts, experts likely vary in both ... -
Democracy Aid Effectiveness: Variation Across Regime Types
(2017)Large-N studies suggest that democracy aid is effective, while multiple small-N investigations call such findings into question. This paper accounts for this contradiction and significantly improves our understanding of ...