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Why Do Some Regions in Europe Have Higher Quality of Government?
(2011-01)While most of the quantitative literature on quality of government involving European countries has focused on national differences, sub-national variation has been neglected, mainly due to the lack of data. This paper ... -
The ethnography of corruption: research themes in political anthropology
(2011-03)One striking feature of the booming literature on corruption in the social sciences is the comparatively weak role played by anthropology. A recent World Bank review notices that anthropological studies dealing with ... -
The Effect of Public Perceptions of Corruption on System Support: The Case of Sweden
(2011-03)Traditionally, Sweden is viewed as a country where corruption and abuse of power for personal gains have been regarded as rare exceptions. Accordingly, Sweden is consistently found at the top in various international ... -
Quality of Government and Access to Safe Water
(2011-03)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 percent ... -
Losing gamble: Mainstream parties' failed strategy to counter anti-immigrant parties
(2011-03)The emergence of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe has provoked very different responses from mainstream parties. Some have tried to counter the antiimmigrant parties, while others have tried to recapture lost voters ... -
Does transparency generate legitimacy? An experimental study of procedure acceptance of open-and closed-door decision-making
(2011-09)Transparency has been a major trend in reforms of political institutions and public administrations in the last decades. This article analyses the main rationale for supplying transparency from the governing elites’ ... -
Towards an Understanding of Gendered Networks and Corruption: The distinction between processes during recruitment and representation
(2011-10)This paper aims to proceed theoretically from the impasse of current research on the relationship between representation of elected women and national levels of corruption. A contradiction is identified in the literature, ... -
Correlates of Democracy
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Public Perceptions of Corruption: The Prevalence and Moral Rejection of Corruption in Sweden
(2011-10)This paper analyses citizens´ perception of corruption in Sweden along two dimensions: a) the spread of corruption among public officials, politicians, and businessmen, and b) the degree of acceptance for corrupt behaviors ... -
Correlates of Corruption
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Reexamining the Relationship Between Press Freedom and Corruption
(2011-11)A widespread and commonly held belief is that a free and independent press fulfills a both significant and important role in fighting corruption. In numerous policy proposals and general recommendations, the importance ... -
Myths of Corruption Prevention: What is (not) good with a Weberian Bureaucracy?
(2011-11)It is often stated that the public sector should be separated from politics and that an isolated bureaucracy, in this sense, is less prone to corruption. The cornerstone of such propositions is that the activities of ... -
MPs, Clientelism, and Collective Goods
(2011-11)The present analysis indicates that MPs in Ghana's young democracy has begun to act on the implications of this accountability and that voters in this African country do evaluate their political leaders not only on personal ... -
Taxation and Government Quality: The Size, the Shape, or Just Europe 300 Years Ago?
(2011-12)Based on historical research, focusing mainly on early-modern Europe, it is assumed that taxation functions as a booster of state capacity and Quality of Government (QoG). The presence of this relationship for modern-day ... -
Does Corruption Cause Aid Fatigue?
(2011-12)Does corruption reduce support for foreign aid? General explanations for aid fatigue, such as meagre development results and the perception that taxpayers’ money is being wasted fail to solve what we call the aid-corruption ... -
Why Pay Bribes? Collective Action and Anticorruption Efforts
(2011-12)This paper suggests that the effectiveness of current anticorruption policy suffers from a focus on the scale of the corruption problem instead of type of corruption that is to be fought. I make a distinction between ... -
The Political Background of Agency Heads in Sweden: Trends and Explanations, 1960-2010
(2012-02)Previous research has described both theoretically and empirically, the negative consequences of having a politicized civil service, recruited on political instead of professional merits. However, we know fairly little ...