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Seeing the State: The Implications of Transparency for Societal Accountability
(2010-06)International organizations and NGOs promote transparency as a necessary condition for enhancing accountability and curbing corruption. Transparency is predicted to deter corruption in part by increasing the opportunities ... -
Quality of Government and Quality of Water
(2010-06)According to a conservative estimation by the World Health Organization, 1.2 billion people lack access to sufficient quantities of safe water, and 2,6 billion people are without adequate sanitation. Consequently, 80 ... -
Are Swing Voters Instruments of Democracy or Farmers of Clientelism? Evidence from Ghana
(2010-06)This paper is one of the first to systematically address the question of whether strength of ethnic identity, political parties’ candidates campaign strategies, poverty, or evaluation of clientelism versus collective/public ... -
Variation in Corruption Between Mexican States Elaborating the Gender Perspective
(2010-06)Dollar et al. (2001) sparked off research on gender and corruption. They showed, in a cross-country comparative study, that a high number of women in elected office is related to a low level of corruption. Whether there ... -
The Failure of Anti-Corruption Policies: A Theoretical Mischaracterization of the Problem
(2010-06)With an increased awareness of the detrimental effects of corruption on development, strategies to fight it are now a top priority in policy circles around the world. Since Africa is home to most of the thoroughly corrupt ... -
A Quality of Government Peace? Bringing the State Back Into the Study of Inter-State Armed Conflict
(2010-09)Domestically, democracy or democratization has not proved as successful in bringing about preferred economic and social consequences as has “good governance” and quality of government. Within the field of international ... -
Mapping Quality of Government in the European Union: A Study of National and Sub-National Variation
(2010-12)This study maps-out the variation in quality of government (‘QoG’ - e.g. low levels or corruption, protection of the rule of law, government effectiveness and accountability) for the national and regional level in the ... -
Party System, Electoral Systems and Constraints on Corruption
(2010-12)This article explores the relationship between the party system, electoral formula and corruption. Previous research has focused on the various incentives for political actors to monitor, or engage in corruption based ... -
Towards Better Governments? A Theoretical Framework for the Influence of International Organizations
(2009-12)Although international organizations are typically seen as important actors promoting better government institutions and reducing corruption, there are few comprehensive analysis of how they promote such changes. This ... -
Quality of Government Makes People Happy
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Quality of Government is Needed to Reduce Poverty and Economic Inequality
(2010-03)While it is true that lots of people in some developing countries have been lifted out of poverty during the recent decade, severe poverty remains a huge problem, not least in Sub-Sahara Africa. Recognizing the importance ... -
Dissatisfied Democrats, Policy Feedback, and European Welfare States, 1976-2001
(2010-03)Are citizens’ level of satisfaction with the functioning of democracy affected by welfare state-related policies and outcomes? Three-level analyses of Eurobarometer surveys from three decades suggest that generosity in ... -
Informed Electoral Accountability and the Welfare State: A Conceptual Reorientation with Experimental and Real-World Findings
(2010-03)Retrospective electoral accountability was conceived as a mechanism that makes democracy work without highly informed citizens. However, recent theory suggests accountability in modern societies can be overwhelmingly ... -
Quality of Government, Political Power and the Welfare State
(2010-03)Why have different industrialized capitalist market economies developed such varying systems for social protection and social insurance? The hitherto most successful theory for explaining this is the Power Resource Theory ... -
A Deadly Mismatch? The Problem of HIV/AIDS in Research and Policy
(2010-03)According to research, HIV/AIDS is not a disease among others but displays a number of specific characteristics. To begin with, it is primarily a sexually transmitted disease and hence involves a large number of taboos ... -
Perceptions of Corruption in Sweden
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Why No Democracy in the Arab-Muslim World? The Importance of Temple Financing and Tax Farming
(2010-12)The absence of a single democracy in the Arab-Muslim world has become a “striking anomaly” for scholars of democratization. The lack of democratization in this part of the world cannot be seen as caused religion as such ... -
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: less stimulating in corrupt states
(2010-12)The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was an attempt to “jump-start the economy to create and save jobs” by inducing state spending on an enormous scale. 787 billion US dollars were allocated to the act, ...