Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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Party System, Electoral Systems and Constraints on Corruption
(2010-12)This article explores the relationship between the party system, electoral formula and corruption. Previous research has focused on the various incentives for political actors to monitor, or engage in corruption based ... -
Towards Better Governments? A Theoretical Framework for the Influence of International Organizations
(2009-12)Although international organizations are typically seen as important actors promoting better government institutions and reducing corruption, there are few comprehensive analysis of how they promote such changes. This ... -
Quality of Government Makes People Happy
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Quality of Government is Needed to Reduce Poverty and Economic Inequality
(2010-03)While it is true that lots of people in some developing countries have been lifted out of poverty during the recent decade, severe poverty remains a huge problem, not least in Sub-Sahara Africa. Recognizing the importance ... -
Dissatisfied Democrats, Policy Feedback, and European Welfare States, 1976-2001
(2010-03)Are citizens’ level of satisfaction with the functioning of democracy affected by welfare state-related policies and outcomes? Three-level analyses of Eurobarometer surveys from three decades suggest that generosity in ... -
Informed Electoral Accountability and the Welfare State: A Conceptual Reorientation with Experimental and Real-World Findings
(2010-03)Retrospective electoral accountability was conceived as a mechanism that makes democracy work without highly informed citizens. However, recent theory suggests accountability in modern societies can be overwhelmingly ... -
Quality of Government, Political Power and the Welfare State
(2010-03)Why have different industrialized capitalist market economies developed such varying systems for social protection and social insurance? The hitherto most successful theory for explaining this is the Power Resource Theory ... -
A Deadly Mismatch? The Problem of HIV/AIDS in Research and Policy
(2010-03)According to research, HIV/AIDS is not a disease among others but displays a number of specific characteristics. To begin with, it is primarily a sexually transmitted disease and hence involves a large number of taboos ... -
Perceptions of Corruption in Sweden
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Why No Democracy in the Arab-Muslim World? The Importance of Temple Financing and Tax Farming
(2010-12)The absence of a single democracy in the Arab-Muslim world has become a “striking anomaly” for scholars of democratization. The lack of democratization in this part of the world cannot be seen as caused religion as such ... -
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: less stimulating in corrupt states
(2010-12)The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was an attempt to “jump-start the economy to create and save jobs” by inducing state spending on an enormous scale. 787 billion US dollars were allocated to the act, ... -
Why Do Some Regions in Europe Have Higher Quality of Government?
(2011-01)While most of the quantitative literature on quality of government involving European countries has focused on national differences, sub-national variation has been neglected, mainly due to the lack of data. This paper ... -
The ethnography of corruption: research themes in political anthropology
(2011-03)One striking feature of the booming literature on corruption in the social sciences is the comparatively weak role played by anthropology. A recent World Bank review notices that anthropological studies dealing with ... -
The Effect of Public Perceptions of Corruption on System Support: The Case of Sweden
(2011-03)Traditionally, Sweden is viewed as a country where corruption and abuse of power for personal gains have been regarded as rare exceptions. Accordingly, Sweden is consistently found at the top in various international ... -
Quality of Government and Access to Safe Water
(2011-03)According to a conservative estimation by the World Health Organization, 1.2 billion people lack access to sufficient quantities of safe water, and 2.6 billion people are without adequate sanitation. Consequently, 80 percent ... -
Losing gamble: Mainstream parties' failed strategy to counter anti-immigrant parties
(2011-03)The emergence of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe has provoked very different responses from mainstream parties. Some have tried to counter the antiimmigrant parties, while others have tried to recapture lost voters ...