Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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Corruption in the Commons: Why Bribery Hampers Enforcement of Environmental Regulations in South African Fisheries
(2012-08)Few studies have explored on the micro-level why corruption hampers environmental regulations. The relationship between corruption and regulatory compliance is here investigated through confidential in-depth interviews ... -
What is the Best Way to Recruit Public Servants?
(2012-08)What is the best way to recruit public servants? Governments all over the world have the last decades pondered that question, as parts of increasing attempts to reform civil services and public administrations. Two opposing ... -
Understanding Satisfaction with the Way Democracy Works: Democracy versus Bureaucracy
(2012-08)The present study is focusing on system factors related to the input side of the democratic system, i.e. the electoral dimension, as well as factors related to the out-put side, i.e. the quality of government. Hence, we ... -
Poor Government and Poor Children: An analysis of government efficiency and sever child deprivation in 70 low-and middle-income countries.
(2012-09)During the past decades research on governance and quality of government (QoG) has highlighted the detrimental impact of bad governance on peoples‘ living conditions. At the same time, much thanks to remarkable efforts ... -
Professional Norms in African Contexts: The forgotten dimension in development theory
(2012-10)Western theories and Western practices have been claimed to not be appropriate in African con-texts. The reasons are argued to be a lack of legitimacy for the practices among public officials in these countries, as well ... -
Good Government in Mexico: The Relevance of the Gender Perspective
(2012-10)A number of studies explore the link between gender and good government, and confirm the cor-relation first observed by Dollar et al (2001): the number of women in elected office is related to levels of corruption. These ... -
The Wealth of Regions: Government Quality and Entrepreneurship in Europe
(2012-10)This paper argues that government quality – operationalized as the ability of government to treat all their citizens in an impartial way – levels the ‘playing field’ for economic agents with and without connections to ... -
Measuring High Level Democratic Principles using the V-Dem Data
(2015)While the definition of extended conceptions of democracy has been widely discussed, the measurement of these constructs has not attracted similar attention. In this paper we present new measures of polyarchy, liberal ... -
Free Media and Quality of Government: The role of media in promoting quality of government institutions in the European Union
(2012-10)While the relationship between freedom of the media and corruption has been established, it is open whether media freedom also contributes to higher quality of government. The basic argument in this article is that previous ... -
Party System Polrisation and Quality of Government: On the Political Correlates of QoG
(2012-10)The Quality of Government (QoG) research program has to date justified the importance of political context in the form of party system type, electoral rules, and political fractionalization for understanding variation in ... -
Corruption Voting and Political Context: Testing the Micro Mechanisms
(2012-10)The electoral consequences of individual perceptions of corruption are an important component of political accountability. In this paper I am concerned with what drives variation in corruption voting across countries. While ... -
What is Government Transparency? New Measures and Relevance for Quality of Government
(2012-12)As policymakers and researchers focus increasing attention on the importance of government transparency for accountability and good governance more generally, the demand for greater conceptual clarity and authoritative ... -
Understanding the Quality of Government in China: The Cadre Administration Hypothesis
(2012-12)China’s remarkable development poses a problem for theories that have stressed the importance of institutions producing “good governance” and minimizing corruption. As a possible solution to this problem, the following ten ... -
Perceptions of Procedural Fairness and Satisfaction with Democracy in the Nordic Welfare States
(2013-01)The Nordic countries are known for their well-functioning public administrations. In indices measuring control of corruption and the quality of the rule of law, these countries frequently occupy top positions. This article ... -
Democratic Consolidation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Can the variation be attributed to the level of corruption at early stategs of democratization?
(2013-01)Despite the fact that almost all of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa introduced multiparty elec-tions during the 1990’s and that the region has seen democratic progress over the years, only nine out of the regions ... -
Democracy and Economic Development
(2013-02)Is democracy favorable or adverse for the environment? While some studies find democracy to increase the likelihood of achieving sustainable development, others propose that democracy rather has negative effects on the ... -
Does NPM Increase the Politicization of the Civil Service
(2013-02)This paper studies the relationship between New Public Management (NPM) and the political re-cruitment of civil servants. Some claim that NPM has had the unintended effect of muddling the politico-administrational divide, ... -
Credible Enforcement Before Credible Commitment: Exploring the Importance of Sequencing
(2013-03)States that are both strong and democratic are the most capable of delivering human development. Existing rational choice accounts of collective action and credible commitment have provided us with the answer as to why ... -
Is Corruption Understood Differently in Different Cultures? Anthropology meets Political Science
(2013-03)This paper aims to investigate how ideas and socio-cultural preferences of “public” versus “private” account for the presence of bribery and corruption practices. Understanding corruption in terms of the differences that ...