Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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The Mechanisms of Corruption: Interest vs. Cognition
(2006)paper starts by identifying a central theoretical problem in contemporary research about political corruption. While a lot of energy has been spent trying to figure out what types of political and economic institutions ... -
All for All: Equality, Corruption and Social Trust
(2006)The importance of social trust has become widely accepted in the social sciences. A number of explanations have been put forward for the stark variation in social trust among countries. Among these, participation in ... -
Politiskt ledarskap för ändrad jämvikt? En teoretisk framställning och empirisk analys av politiskt ledarskaps betydelse för korruptionsbekämpning
(2007)Det finns stora svårigheter att förklara hur en övergång från korruption till ickekorruption kan fås till stånd. Detta har även följder för den praktiska korruptionsbekämpningen. Ett av problemen är att politiskt ledarskap ... -
The Quality of Government and Social Capital: A Theory of Political Institutions and Generalized Trust
(2007-03)The purpose of this article is to present a new theory on the generation of social capital. In the discussion about the sources of social capital it has been stressed that generalized trust is built up by the citizens ... -
Anti-Corruption - A Big Bang Theory
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Intergenerational Responsibility: Historical Emissions and Climate Change Adaptation
(2007-10)It is widely held that climate change requires that we engage in strategies of adaptation as well as mitigation, but the normative questions surrounding justice in adaptation remains insufficiently investigated. This paper ... -
Corruption as an Institution: Rethinking the Nature and Origins of the Grabbing Hand
(2007-11)The predominant view of corruption within political science and economics today is the principal-agent model. Corruption is modeled as criminal behavior on behalf of some agents entrusted to act on the behalf of some ... -
The Good Society Index
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Web-based expert surveys: The opportunities for conducting web-based elite expert surveys
(2007-11)Web-surveys are today commonly used in a wide range of areas. The interest in web-based surveys is not surprising as they offer a number of advantages compared to traditional mail or telephone interviews. Among the most ... -
Power Sharing, Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization and Government Quality
(2007-12)Do power sharing institutions such as federalism and proportional representation (P.R.) mitigate the potentially negative effects of ethno-linguistic fractionalization on quality of government? Numerous empirical studies ... -
Navigating Towards Effective Fishery Management? Exploring the Dynamics of Compliance
(2007-12)This paper deals with compliance in the European and Swedish fisheries management regimes. It takes on a theoretical exploration of the dynamics of institutional compliance, and extracts six hypotheses based on theoretical ... -
Formal and Informal Institutions in Groundwater Governance in Rajasthan: A Case Study of Chota Nayrana and Tilona Village
(2008-02)This paper examines the sustainable preservation of natural resources at the community level, with an emphasis on groundwater resources in Rajasthan, India. Considering that water is one of the resources that have been ... -
Creating Political Legitimacy: Electoral Democracy versus Quality of Government
(2008-03)It is often held that the establishment of electoral democracy is key to the creation of political legitimacy. This article challenges this idea and presents an alternative. A large number of empirical studies reveals that ... -
Effects of Politicization on Welfare State Policies: Comparing Polic Impacts of Politically Appointed Officials in 18 Mature Democracies
(2008-03)This paper argues that in order to explain policy output, we need to better understand the role of key bureaucrats. It suggests that ministerial advisers are influential in determining the character of policy output and ... -
The Impact of Socio-Political Integration and Press Freedom on Corruption in Developing Countries
(2008-03)Do domestic institutions filter the effects of international openness on levels of government corruption? The analyses in this study demonstrate a more nuanced understanding of a previously understood phenomenon — that ... -
Navigating Towards Effective Fishery Management: Exploring the Impact of Imbalanced Burdens on Regime Legitimacy
(2008-04)Despite two decades of the Common Fishery Policy (CFP), the fishery politics of the European Union (EU) is considered a failure when it comes to securing fish-stocks. This paper explores reasons to this state of affairs ... -
New Public Management as Trust Problem: Explaining Cross-country Differences in the Adoption of Performance-related Pay in the Public Sector
(2008-04)This paper aims to explain cross-country variations in a paradigmatic element of NPM reforms: the shift from low-powered incentives (i.e. flat salaries) to high-powered one (i.e. performance-related pay systems). The paper ... -
Contestation or Complicity: Civil Society as Antidote or Accessory to Political Corruption
(2008-04)Corruption interferes with and distorts the political and implementation processes, often to the disadvantage of the already disadvantaged. Yet our understanding of the factors that might propel a political system from ...