Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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Does transparency generate legitimacy? An experimental study of procedure acceptance of open-and closed-door decision-making
(2011-09)Transparency has been a major trend in reforms of political institutions and public administrations in the last decades. This article analyses the main rationale for supplying transparency from the governing elites’ ... -
Towards an Understanding of Gendered Networks and Corruption: The distinction between processes during recruitment and representation
(2011-10)This paper aims to proceed theoretically from the impasse of current research on the relationship between representation of elected women and national levels of corruption. A contradiction is identified in the literature, ... -
Correlates of Democracy
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Public Perceptions of Corruption: The Prevalence and Moral Rejection of Corruption in Sweden
(2011-10)This paper analyses citizens´ perception of corruption in Sweden along two dimensions: a) the spread of corruption among public officials, politicians, and businessmen, and b) the degree of acceptance for corrupt behaviors ... -
Correlates of Corruption
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Reexamining the Relationship Between Press Freedom and Corruption
(2011-11)A widespread and commonly held belief is that a free and independent press fulfills a both significant and important role in fighting corruption. In numerous policy proposals and general recommendations, the importance ... -
Myths of Corruption Prevention: What is (not) good with a Weberian Bureaucracy?
(2011-11)It is often stated that the public sector should be separated from politics and that an isolated bureaucracy, in this sense, is less prone to corruption. The cornerstone of such propositions is that the activities of ... -
MPs, Clientelism, and Collective Goods
(2011-11)The present analysis indicates that MPs in Ghana's young democracy has begun to act on the implications of this accountability and that voters in this African country do evaluate their political leaders not only on personal ... -
Taxation and Government Quality: The Size, the Shape, or Just Europe 300 Years Ago?
(2011-12)Based on historical research, focusing mainly on early-modern Europe, it is assumed that taxation functions as a booster of state capacity and Quality of Government (QoG). The presence of this relationship for modern-day ... -
Does Corruption Cause Aid Fatigue?
(2011-12)Does corruption reduce support for foreign aid? General explanations for aid fatigue, such as meagre development results and the perception that taxpayers’ money is being wasted fail to solve what we call the aid-corruption ... -
Why Pay Bribes? Collective Action and Anticorruption Efforts
(2011-12)This paper suggests that the effectiveness of current anticorruption policy suffers from a focus on the scale of the corruption problem instead of type of corruption that is to be fought. I make a distinction between ... -
The Political Background of Agency Heads in Sweden: Trends and Explanations, 1960-2010
(2012-02)Previous research has described both theoretically and empirically, the negative consequences of having a politicized civil service, recruited on political instead of professional merits. However, we know fairly little ... -
Decentralization: An Antidote to Corruption in Water Services? A Comparative Study of the Enabling Environment for Corruption at Different Levels of Government
(2012-02)In the past two decades a common policy recommendation for improving water governance has been to shift the authority over water services to sub-national government departments. The advice to decentralize builds on ... -
Do Anti-Corruption Parties Matter? The electoral fate and policy impact of the third wave of niche parties in central and Eastern Europe
(2012-03)Niche parties have been increasingly successful during the last 30 years. Parties focusing on immigration and environment have long been in business and their impact on the political discourse as well as on policy outcomes ... -
Food Security and Elite-Ruler Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the impact of democracy on public goods provision
(2012-03)How does democracy impact on public goods provision? This question has provoked a wealth of empirical and theoretical investigation, but few answers that satisfactorily explain emerging patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most ... -
Legalize It: An argument for formalizing petty corruption wen state capacity is low
(2012-03)Corruption in the form of informal payments to bureaucrats for public services are a major problem around the world. There are however few theories of how countries can get rid of corruption. I argue that petty corruption ... -
Delivering Stability: Primogeniture and autocratic survival in European monarchies 1000-1800
(2012-04)Despite being the probably most common form of political rule in history, monarchies remain understudied in terms of how constitutional arrangements affect leader survival. In this paper, we examine if the principle of ... -
Taxation, Democracy and State-Building: How Does Sequencing Matter?
(2012-05)What is the relationship between democracy and taxation, under conditions of ‘reverse’ sequencing? Existing theories about taxation and democracy have presumed this relationship to be positive, but they have largely been ... -
Mass Education, State-Building and Equality: Searching for the Roots of Corruption
(2012-07)The roots of corruption are highly contested. We argue that there is a path dependence across almost a century and a half and present five theoretical arguments for the existence of a causal mechanism between universal ...