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Taxation and Turnout in Swedish Municipalities
(2019-12)The link between taxation and representation is considered foundational to the emergence of demo-cratic governance. Nevertheless, the empirical relationship between taxation and the extent to which citizens actually exert ... -
The Link between Ethnic Fractionalization and Corruption Revised: Ethnic Voting in Africa
(2019-12)This paper revisits the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and corruption. Earlier literature argues that ethnic fractionalization leads to corruption via mechanisms involving ethnic in-groupfavoritism. ... -
2The effect of gender on corruption: Sorting out explanations for gender differences with new exper-imental research
(2019-12)An extensive literature demonstrates a relationship between gender and corruption, with women be-ing less involved in corrupt transactions than men. There are two major ways of explaining this cor-relation; one emphasizes ... -
Characterizing and Assessing Temporal Heterogeneity: Introducing a Change Point Framework, with Applications on the Study of Democratization
(2019)Various theories in political science point to temporal heterogeneity in relationships of interest. Yet, empirical research typically ignores such heterogeneity or employs fairly crude measures to evaluate it. Advances in ... -
Economic Crisis and Regime Transitions from Within
(2019-11)We study how economic crises affect the likelihood of regime change brought about, in part or fully, by actors in the incumbent regime. While historically common, such processes remain far less studied than regime transitions ... -
Democracy and Populism: Testing a Contentious Relationship
(2019)The phenomenon of populism and its relationship with modern democracy has gained considerable attention in recent years. This paper aims at advancing our understanding of how populism affects different models of democracy ... -
CAN CIVIL SOCIETY CURB CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT? A comparative study of the conditional effect of societal accountability in EU regions
(2019-09)Public procurement involves large sums of public funds and is major component of public sector fiscal activity. For this very reason, procurement is vulnerable to corruption, as it presents both motive and ... -
Agency Design, Favoritism and Procurement in the United States
(2019-05)The U.S. federal government spend s huge sums buying goods and services from outside of the public sector. Given the sums involved, strategic government purchasing can have electoral consequences. In this ... -
Corruption as a Self-Reinforcing “Trap”: Implications for Reform Strategy
(2019-06)Corruption is widely believed to be a self-reinforcing phenomenon, in the sense that the incentive to engage in corrupt acts increases as corruption becomes more widespread in the relevant community. Leading scholars have ... -
Correlates of Corruption
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Correlates of Electoral Democracy
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Is impartiality enough? Government impartiality and citizen’s perceptions of public service quality
(2019-05)Government impartiality is considered a core feature of government quality that leads to favorable macro-level outcomes. We still have limited knowledge, however, of how impartiality affects citizens’ perceptions of public ... -
Elite Survival First, Then Meritocratization Implications of Elite Survival on the Meritocratization of Bureaucracies: A Panel Data Study from 1820 to 2010
(2019-05)Previous research has shown that meritocratic recruitment increases bureaucratic performance and decreases corruption (Evans and Rauch, 1999, 2000). However, less emphasis has been made on why meritocratic practices take ... -
Transparency and the Quality of Local Public Service Provision: Street-Level Discretion in Education, Health and Infrastructure.
(2019-05)Transparency has been widely promoted as a tool for improving public service delivery; however, empirical evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that the effects of transparency on service provision are ... -
Trust, Regulation and Redistribution
(2019-05)For many social scientists government intervention is linked to low levels of social trust and corruption, while, on the contrary, for others government intervention is associated with high trust and low corruption. We aim ... -
Does Quality of Government and Trust Explain the Cross-National Variation in Public Support for Climate Policy?
(2019-02)In accordance with the Paris agreement, the signing countries have undertaken to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, implying more government intervention to steer the behaviors of different actors with climate policy ... -
The Focal Power of Anticorruption Law: Insights from Italian State-Building
(2019-01)Until recently, it has been taken for granted that laws play an important role in the fight against corruption. However, a recent debate casts doubt on the influence of laws to curb corruption in societies with systemic ... -
New public management and municipal performance: Do NPM reforms boost performance?
(2018-12)New Public Management (NPM) reforms have been adopted worldwide since the mid-1970s to improve government effectiveness and efficiency. The basic premise of NPM reforms is that market orientation and management focus in ... -
Marketization and the Quality of Residential Elderly Care in Sweden
(2018-11)Against a backdrop of increased levels of marketization of welfare services in OECD countries, this article aims to shed light on the separate effects of private ownership and competition on service quality. Using residential ... -
Why Support International redistribution? Corruption and Public Support for Aid in the Eurozone
(2018-05)What factors explain public support for international redistribution? While the European Union has sent billions of taxpayers’ money to over indebted euro countries in an attempt to avoid an economic collapse, these ...