Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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Religious Clientelism A theory
(2021)In today’s political science scholarship, the concept of clientelism often evokes an image of voters selling their votes to the highest bidder, where a substantial focus lies on the material nature of the exchange between ... -
Populism and COVID-19: How Populist Governments (Mis)Handle the Pandemic
(2021-05)Populist parties and actors now govern various countries around the world. Often elected by the public in times of economic crises and over the perceived failure of the elites, the question stands as to how populist ... -
The Political Participation of the Poor: Local Social Context and the Impact of Social Ties on the Political Engagement of Poor Individuals
(2021-05-18)Research on political participation finds that poor citizens engage less in politics than wealthy citizens. Yet, recent survey evidence also suggests that there is crucial variation in the poor’s level of engagement within ... -
Sub-national Quality of Government in EU Member States: Presenting the 2021 European Quality of Government Index and its relationship with Covid-19 indicators
(2021-04)The 2021 European Quality of Government Index (the EQI) is the largest survey ever undertaken to measure perceptions of quality of government, collecting the opinions of over 129,000 respondents in a total of 208 NUTS 1 ... -
Pledge-based accountability: Voter responses to fulfilled and broken election pledges
(2021-05-12)Political parties communicate their plans to voters via promises made during election campaigns. While it has been found that governments generally take these promises they make seriously, it has also been established ... -
Opposition Parties and Elite Co-optation in Electoral Autocracies
(2021-05)Autocratic incumbents often attempt to co-opt select opposition party leaders to minimize threats to their rule. While the literature identifies co-optation of opposition party leaders as an important survival strategy of ... -
What explains the credit ratings in economically advanced democracies? Unpacking the role of political stability through ideology, corruption, and transparency
(2021-05-06)Credit rating agencies (CRAs) are often referred to in the literature as the “gatekeepers” of the international credit market. Their assessments may determine a government’s ability to finance its budget since good credit ... -
International Influence: The Hidden Dimension
(2021-05)In this paper we develop and test hypotheses about possible influences that lie outside national borders. A major reason for studying international influences is Galton’s Problem, which cautions that domestic determinants ... -
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report
(2021)The Quality of Government Expert Survey (QoG Expert Survey) is a research project aimed at documenting the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior in countries around the world. This report ... -
Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000-2015 CE
(2021)Since the transition to agricultural production, property rights to land have been a key institution for economic development. Clearly defined land rights provide economic agents with increased access to credit, secure ... -
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties
(2021-03)The recent increase of democratic declines around the world – “the third wave of autocratization” – has sparked a new generation of studies on the topic. Scholars agree that these days the main threat to democracy arises ... -
Environmental commitments in different types of democracies: The role of liberal, social-liberal, and deliberative politics
(2021-03)Ever since the recognition of ongoing, human-induced, large-scale environmental degradation, from the early 1960s onwards, the scholarly community has looked at democracy with mixed feelings. Some assert, quite openly, ... -
Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?
(2021-03)Rulers of weak states face a predicament. They lack capacity to monitor crime and need citizens to partake in intelligence-sharing. Yet, agents of such authorities are seldom trusted, raising doubts about whether locals ... -
Measuring Politically-relevant Ientity, With and Without Groups
(2021-03)Quantitative scholarship on civil conflict still largely relies upon the ethnic group as the foundation for measures of politically-relevant diversity and, in particular, identity-based political inclusion. However, ethnicity ... -
The V–Dem Measurement Model: Latent Variable Analysis for Cross-National and Cross-Temporal Expert-Coded Data
(2022-03)The Varieties of Democracy (V–Dem) project relies on country experts who code a host of ordinal variables, providing subjective ratings of latent—that is, not directly observable—regime characteristics over time. Sets of ... -
Democracy Doesn’t Always Happen Over Night: Regime Change in Stages and Economic Growth
(V-Dem Institute, 2021-02)We motivate and empirically analyse the idea that democratic regime change is not a dis-crete event but a two-stage process: in the first stage, autocracies enter into an ‘episode’ of political liberalization which can last ... -
A Framework for Understanding Regime Transformation: Introducing the ERT Dataset
(V-Dem Institute, 2021-02)Gradual processes of democratization and autocratization have gained increased attention in the literature. Assessing such processes in a comparative framework remains a challenge, however, due to their under-conceptualization ... -
Public Discourse and Autocratization: Infringing on Autonomy, Sabotaging Accountability
(V-Dem Institute, 2021-02)Ever since its existence, democracy is periodically diagnosed to be in crisis. When such crises are analyzed, reference has usually been made to the malfunctioning of core democratic institutions and the behavior of actors. ... -
Hits close to home: Shootings and support for the Sweden Democrats
(2020-12)Do instances of public gun violence increase support for Radical Right Parties? Using a pseudo-experimental design, this study investigates the impact of shootings in Sweden 2011-2018 on support for the Sweden Democrats. ... -
The Roots of Female Emancipation: The Initializing Role of Cool Water
(2020-12)Reviewing the literature on the deep historic roots of gender inequality, we theorize and provide evidence for a trajectory that (1) originates in a climatic configuration called the “Cool Water” (CW-) ...