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Electoral Democracy and Human Development
(2015)This study attempts to reconcile competing positions in the debate over whether democracy improves human development by showing that some aspects of democracy – but not others – affect human development. Specifically, we ... -
Decentralization, corruption, and the role of democracy
(2015-08)In this paper, I consider how the level of democracy moderates the relationship between decentralization and corruption. While there is an expectation within the policy community that decentralization prevents corruption, ... -
When and Where do Elections Matter? A Global Test of the Democratization by Elections Hypothesis, 1900-2012
(2015)To date studies assessing the democratizing effects of elections have produced mixed results. While findings suggest that successive uninterrupted election cycles in a global sample (Teorell and Hadenius 2009) and within ... -
Democracy, Bureaucratic Capacity and Environmental Quality
(2015)This paper explores the link between democracy, bureaucratic capacity and environmental quality. While many previous empirical studies traditionally have focused on either the democracy or bureaucratic capacity ... -
Vulnerability of Small Island Development States. Does good governance help?
(2015)Small island states have in recent decades been identified as particularly vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change. Violent winds, floods, and draughts have had severe consequences for millions of people and ... -
Corruption and violations of conservation rules: A survey experiment with resource users
(2015)Small-scale corruption in government administrations that govern natural resources is believed to have a negative impact on conservation management. Yet, while corruption is said to obstruct the implementation of conservation ... -
THE QOG EXPERT SURVEY II Report
(2015)THE QUALITY OF GOVERNMENT EXPERT SUR-VEY II IN BRIEF • The Quality of Government Expert Survey II (QoG Expert Survey II) focuses on the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior on countries ... -
Crash in Economy, Crash in Confidence: Perceptions of corruption and political support in Iceland before and after the financial crisis
(2013-11)In the mid 00’s Iceland was ranked as the least corrupt country in the world by Transparency Inter-national and enjoyed top positions in most comparative indices of governance and development. In 2008 the banking system ... -
Öppenhet och korruption
(2005)Det här är en kortversion av den ursprungliga uppsatsen. För ett mer utvecklat teoretiskt resonemang samt mer utförliga resultatredovisningar hänvisas läsaren till den ursprungliga uppsatsen Betydelsen av öppenhet för ... -
Political Corruption and Social Trust: An Experimental Approach
(2005)Few experimental studies have investigated important factors for people’s perceptions of the trustworthiness of others. Building on theories that point at the importance of trustworthy government institutions, an experiment ... -
Exploring a Causal Relationship between Vertical and Horizontal Trust
(2005)Three experiments investigating how a possible causal relationship works between vertical trust (i.e., trust in authorities) and horizontal trust (i.e., trust in others) are reported. In Experiment 1, 40 undergraduate ... -
Transparency and Corruption: The Conditional Significance of a Free Press
(2005)Is making political institutions more transparent an effective method for combating corruption? Common wisdom in the debate and research on the causes of corruption answers strongly in the affirmative. We argue that this ... -
What is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Political Institutions
(2005)The last years have seen a growth in research on “good governance” and the quality of government institutions. This development has been propelled by empirical findings that such institutions might hold the key to ... -
Political Corruption and Social Trust: An Experimental Approach
(2006)The main question addressed in this paper is how the great variation in the level of social trust between different countries can be explained? Most empirical research on this question has been based on survey data which ... -
Does Type of Authoritarianism Affect the Prospects for Democracy? Exogenous Shocks and Contingent Democratization
(2006)In this paper we test the often asserted view that the prospects for democratization differ among different types of authoritarian regimes. To what extent do exogenous shocks— economic crisis, popular protest and democratic ...