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Pre-suffrage impartiality, democratic experience and clientelism: How sequencing matters
(2023-01)It has been asserted that clientelism today is weaker in countries that were endowed with impartial public administrations prior to the extension of suffrage because the presence of bureaucratic checks undermines clientelism ... -
Introducing Uncertainty: Community Driven Development and Local Collective Action Capacity
(2022-12)In areas with entrenched poverty and weak state presence, community driven development (CDD) initia-tives aim to secure the provision of services such as water, waste water and electricity, while engaging the community as ... -
Danger all Along. How foreign military threats and domestic power-sharing shape autocratic state-building.
(2022-12)Standard international relations accounts hold that military buildup by neighboring states leads to increased state-building efforts by authoritarian rulers. In contrast, this study shows that only some dictators will ... -
Institutional Order in Episodes of Autocratization
(V-Dem Working Paper, 2022-10)Are there patterns in the sequences of institutional change when democracies autocratize? If so, are such patterns distinct for democracies that transition to authoritarianism versus those that avert democratic breakdown? ... -
School’s out! Information Cues and Retrospective Voting in the Case of School Closures in Sweden
(2022-09)While researchprovidesevidencethatvoters’considergovernments’ past performance,littleisknownaboutwhichinformationvoterspay attentionto.Wesuggesttwocompetingtheoriesofretrospective voting:Outcome-orientedvotersonlyreac ... -
Legal Pluralism and Fragmented Sovereignty in Iraq
(2022-06)In post-con ictsettings,thestate'sauthorityhasbeenunderminedanditsinsti- tutions arestrugglingtoreestablishlegitimacy.Suchsettingscreateapowervacuum that alternativeorderscan ll.Wherestateandnon-statelegalorderscoexis ... -
Responsiveness and models of representation
(2022-06)Researchontheopinion-policylinkhasshownthatthereisaconnectionbetween public preferencesandimplementedpolicy,albeitbiasedtowardsthepreferencesof the a uent.Wearguethatweneedtolooknotonlytheincomebias,butalsoatthe polit ... -
Introducing the Worldwide Age Representation in Parliaments (WARP) Dataset
(2022-04)Research increasingly highlights the social group composition of decision-making bodies in politics. Beyond issues of gender and ethnicity, an emerging literature focuses on age groups. The absence of young adults in elected ... -
Blockchain Technology A Trust or Control Machine? Theory and Experimental Evidence
(2022-03)Blockchaintechnologyhasattractedconsiderableinterestinthelast15years.It is arguedthatBlockchaincansustainanytransactionofvalue,beitmonetaryorinformation, in amannerthatissecureandindependentofinterpersonaltrust.Yet,the ... -
Electoral Volatility and Regime Survival in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
(2022-02)Party system institutionalization is regarded as a critical underpinning of democracies, but its role in non-democratic systems has been understudied. In this paper, we evaluate whether the concept has meaningful and perhaps ... -
Which Institutions Rule? Unbundling the Democracy-Growth Nexus
(2022-02)Over the past two decades studies of the causal impact of ‘institutions’ and ‘democracy’ on economic prosperity have occupied a prominent position in the cross-country growth litera-ture and within economics more broadly. ... -
A Short History of Contestation and Participation
(2022-01)Contestation and participation are commonly viewed as the two constituent dimensions of electoral democracy. How exactly have these two dimensions been conceptualized and measured in the literature? Are they empirically ... -
Mass Mobilization and Regime Change. Evidence From a New Measure of Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2020
(2022-01)Mass mobilization is an important driver of political change. While some citizens organize collective action in favor of more democratic institutions, others take to the streets to support authoritarian leaders or ... -
Fighting the Disease or Manipulating the Data? Democracy, State Capacity, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022-01)We discuss and analyze how regime type and state capacity shape the abilities and incentives of political leaders to respond to COVID-19. We argue that there is likely a complementary relationship between democracy and ... -
Sexual forms of corruption and sextortion: How to expand research in a sensitive area
(2021-12)There is increasing attention among advocacy organizations about the urgent problem of sextortion and other ways in which sexual forms of corruption hurts vulnerable people. Yet, scholarly understandings of this challenge ... -
Sweden and the COVID-19 Crisis
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Disappointed expectations: Does the Basque country really enjoy such a high level of quality of government -in European standards- when compared to a backward region such as Andalusia?
(2021-10)The quality of government (QoG) is a concept without an undisputed benchmark. To contribute to its clarification, we propose a novel model of analysis that incorporates formal and informal institu-tions and operationalizes ... -
Provider Ownership and Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care Homes
(2021-09)The provision of social services by private providers is widespread in OECD countries, but the jury is still out on whether marketization has improved service quality. This paper seeks to nuance existing debate by examining ... -
2 Pre-Election Tax Enforcement in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2021-06)Using the literature on the political business cycle as a point of departure, this paper investigates whether incumbent politicians manipulate the enforcement of tax collection prior to elections, in order to win votes. ...
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