Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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Quality of Government Affect Voter Turnout in the European Regions
(2013-03)While much of the literature on voter turnout focuses on institutional and socioeconomic factors related to the “input” side of the political process, we examine the “output” side of the political process – and advance ... -
Can Efficient Institutions Induce Cooperation Among Low Trust Agents?
(2013-04)The importance of political institutions for economic growth and social well-being has been demonstrated in a number of studies. Societies in which agents trust that other agents will collaborate in establishing and ... -
Dissatisfied Democrats: A Matter of Representation or Performance?
(2013-04)Research on political support around the world has demonstrated massive support for democracy as the underlying principle of governance. At the same time many citizens express dissatisfaction with the way democracy works ... -
Women's Political Representation in the European Regions: The Impact from Corruption and Bad Governance
(2013-05)While much of the literature on descriptive representation of women focuses on the formal role played by political parties and institutions, a growing body of research emphasizes the impact of informal institutions. We ... -
Examining Gender Differences in Environmental Concern Across Four Levels of the Swedish Polity
(2013-06)While numerous studies find modest, consistent gender differences in environmental concern with-in the general publics of North American and European countries, such a pattern has not been studied much among elected ... -
From Åland to Ankara: European Quality of Government Index. 2013 Data, Sensitivity Analysis and Final Results
(2013-07)This paper presents the latest version of the European Quality of Government Index (‘EQI’). The data builds on a previously published data from 2010 (Charron, Lapuente and Rothstein 2013; Charron, Dijkstra and Lapuente ... -
The Three Worlds of Governance: Arguments for a Parsimonious Theory of Quality of Government
(2013-08)It is necessary to conceptualize and provide better measures of good governance because in contrast to democratization, empirical studies show that it has strong positive effects on measures of human well-being, social ... -
Democratic Origins of Auditing: "Good Auditing" in Democratic Perspectives
(2013-10)This paper addresses the democratic origins of auditing of the public sector and aim at developing a concept of “Good Auditing” based on democratic theories. The paper argues that the normative characteristics of auditing ... -
Impartiality and Corruption in Sweden
(2013-10)This paper presents data on corruption and impartiality from a unique survey with local politicians in Sweden, which includes answers from about 78 percent of the 13 361 politicians active in the 290 Swedish municipalities. ... -
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2008-2011: A Report
(2013-10)The literature on the quality of government generally, and corruption more specifically, focus main-ly on the political side of the state. There are however strong reasons to believe that bureaucratic structures have ... -
Free, Accessible Media and Quality of Government
(2013-11)In contrary to what might be expected from the results of previous research conducted on media freedom, there is a variation in both perceived corruption and quality of government (QoG) among countries with free media. ... -
Women's Local Political Representation within 30 European Countries: A comparative data set on regional figures
(2013-11)This document describes a new dataset on women’s political representation at the local level in Europe. The author collected the most recent figures on women elected at the lowest administra-tive tier in 30 countries. The ... -
Paradise Islands? Island States and the Provision of Environmental Goods
(2013-11)Island states have been shown to trump continental states on collective action-related outcomes, such as democracy and institutional quality. The argument tested in this article contends that the same logic might apply to ... -
Conceptualizing and Measuring State Capacity
(2013-12)This paper proposes and quantitatively tests a measurement of state capacity using Robert Adcock and David Collier’s four-step framework. Drawing from the work of state-centered structuralists, rational choice-inspired ... -
Public Administration and Corruption – How To Get the Institutions That Work
(2015-05-07)Corruption is a global problem, impacting on both economic and human development. The last few decades, social science research has paid increasing attention to the problem, but rit emains limited in many aspects, not least ... -
Does Compliance Correlate with Political Support?
(2014-01)The literature on state legitimacy posits a close relationship between attitudinal political support and compliant behavior. The relationship is well theorized, but an examination of the empirical evidence suggests a ... -
Roba Pero Hace? An experimental test of the competence-corruption tradeoff hypothesis in Spain and Sweden
(2014-02)From previous research it is known that one of the main mechanisms that limits the ability of elections to be effective in controlling corruption has to do with a sort of implicit exchange of transparency for competence, ... -
Disruptive Protests and Bureaucratic Structures in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2014-05)The paper examines why citizens in some democracies engage in disruptive political actions to a larger extent than in other countries. Our hypothesis adds to previous research that focuses on individual factors, representational ... -
Corruption: An Umbrella Concept
(2014-06)Research surrounding corruption has grown exponentially in the past decade, during which various concepts have been drawn into the corruption realm; whereby independent concepts now share space with corruption. This paper ...