Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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Autocrats and Skyscrapers: Modern White Elephants in Dictatorships
(2017)Political leaders often have private incentives to pursue expensive and socially wasteful "white elephant" projects. Our argument highlights that weak accountability mechanisms allow autocratic leaders to more easily realize ... -
The Link between Appointments and Appropriations in the Politics of Administrative Design.
(2017-04)In this paper, we analyze the relationship between political control of agency decision-making and the size of agency budgets. Scholars of bureaucratic and distributive politics have respectively highlighted how political ... -
Democracy and Corruption: A Global Time-Series Analysis with V-Dem Data
(2017)Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, numerous scholars have found empirically that corruption decreases at high levels of democracy but actually increases at low levels. A key weaknesses of studies ... -
Explaining the Erosion of Democracy: Can Economic Growth Hinder Democracy?
(2017)Economic growth has become one of the leitmotivs academicians and pundits ask once and again to assess democratic endurance over time. While large portion of the literature posits that economic growth is positive for ... -
IRT models for expert-coded panel data
(2017)Data sets quantifying phenomena of social-scientific interest often use multiple experts to code latent concepts. While it remains standard practice to report the average score across experts, experts likely vary in both ... -
Democracy Aid Effectiveness: Variation Across Regime Types
(2017)Large-N studies suggest that democracy aid is effective, while multiple small-N investigations call such findings into question. This paper accounts for this contradiction and significantly improves our understanding of ... -
Internet, Censorship, and Corruption. The impact of online censorship on the internet’s potential to reduce corruption
(2016-12)Since the advent of the internet, the world has witnessed the explosive growth and development of technologies that provide us with ever-increasing means of accessing information and connecting with one another. This ... -
Partisan Politics and Institutional Choice in Public Bureaucracies
(2016-12-20)Political leaders can indirectly control policy implementation by strategically manipulating administrative institutions. In this dissertation, Mikael Holmgren argues that, precisely because administrative institutions are ... -
Local Democracy and Economic Growth
(2016)Theoretical work on the institutional sources of economic growth regards decentralization and democracy in a positive light. Despite this, empirical work shows that neither fiscal decentralization nor national democracy ... -
Going Historical: Measuring Democraticness before the Age of Mass Democracy
(2016)Most studies of democratic developments are limited to the period after World War II. However, political regimes varied according to different aspects of democracy long before the establishment of modern liberal mass ... -
Does Party Politicization of Corruption Affect Voter Turnout?
(2016-11)In this paper, we argue that the effects of corruption on voter turnout not necessarily have to be negative. We argue that voters’ willingness to participate in elections will increase when parties po-liticize the issue ... -
How Policy Legitimacy affects Policy Support Throughout the Policy Cycle
(2016-11)We analyze the importance of legitimacy and compare how drivers of public policy attitudes evolve across the policy process consisting of the input (i.e., the processes forgoing acquisition of power and the procedures ... -
How corruption shapes the relationship between democracy and electrification
(2016-11)One of the central questions in research on the drivers behind public good provision is how political regimes and institutions impact the provision of public goods. Previous research within this field has shown that ... -
Minoritarian Activism – Judicial Politics in the European Union
(2016-11-07)Abstract Is the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) best described as a run-away agent, free to influence the EU according to its own preferences, or as an obedient servant of EU member state governments? In this ... -
Making Sense of Corruption Perceptions: Who to Ask (and About What?) - Evidence from Iceland
(2016-10)The extent of corruption in Iceland is highly contested. International corruption measures indicate a relatively small amount of corruption, while domestic public opinion suggest a serious corruption problem. Thus, uncertainty ... -
Suicide by Competition? Authoritarian Institutional Adaptation and Regime Fragility
(2016)While it is clear that contemporary authoritarian incumbents use democratic emulation as a strategy in the hopes of stabilizing and extending their tenure in power, this does not mean it is always effective. Indeed, an ... -
Public Trust in Elections: The Role of Election Administration Autonomy and Media Freedom
(2016)As multiparty elections have become a global norm, scholars and policy experts regard public trust in elections as vital for regime legitimacy. However, very few cross-national studies have examined the consequences of ... -
The Abandoned Trustees. Explaining Corruption in Local Government
(2016-09)This paper engages in the debate about how different ways of organizing relations between politicians and bureaucrats affect corruption. Research has established robust correlations between the political autonomy of ... -
Does Chief Executive’s Experience Moderate Consolidation’s Impact on Municipal Performance
(2016-09)A profound structural change is municipal merger. This come about through absorption of small units or merge of units to create a new entity. Both are intended to improve efficiency by taking advantage of economies of scale ... -
Is the quality of the outsourced public services contingent on the quality of bureaucracy?
(2016-07)Outsourced public services make up about half of the total public service delivery in OECD countries today and have increased dramatically over time. Reformers expected that outsourcing would both cut costs and increase ...