Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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Violence and the Costs of Honesty: Rethinking bureaucrats’ choice to take bribes
(2015-02)Explanations for bureaucrats’ decisions to take bribes have evolved from accounts of incentives to focusing on expectations of others’ behavior. However, there are plausibly more considerations when making such choices in ... -
Endogenous Bureaucracy
(2015-02)By manipulating administrative institutions, political leaders can indirectly control the policy preferences that are carried out and enforced within a polity. In this paper, I suggest that precisely for this reason, ... -
The Politics of Political Appointments
(2015-02)By manipulating the screening and selection of executive bureaucrats, political leaders can indirectly control the policy preferences that are carried out and enforced within a polity. In this article, we argue that ... -
Corruption and Antibiotic Use in the European Regions
(2015-03)Objective: To investigate the association between two measures of corruption – prevalence of corruption in the health sector and prevalence of bribes in the society – and antibiotic consumption in the European regions. ... -
Careers, Connections and Corruption Risks in Europe
(2015-04)Why do officials in some countries favor entrenched contractors while others assign public con-tracts more impartially? According to the research, such variation responds to differences in political institutions, economic ... -
The Importance of Electoral and Judicial Trust For Regime Support
(2015-04)What kind of institutions is most essential to be trustworthy in order for a society to function well? To the extent that previous research has addressed the problem, trust in electoral, judicial, public administration and ... -
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Making their way home from Brussels. New Political Parties in European and National Elections
(2015-04-30)This thesis studies new political parties in the context of both European and national elections. It argues that the study of new political parties should not focus only on the national level. This is particularly true ... -
Institutional Subsystems and the Survival of Democracy: Do Political and Civil Society Matter?
(2015)How do two central institutional subsystems of democracy – party systems and civil society – affect the persistence of democratic regimes? Despite the ability of each of these institutions to provide sources of countervailing ... -
Vote Buying Is A Good Sign: Alternate Tactics of Fraud in Africa 1986-2012
(2015)Over 90 percent of the world’s states currently select their national leaders through multi-party elections. However, in Africa the quality of elections still varies widely, ranging from elections plagued by violence and ... -
Evaluating and Improving Item Response Theory Models for Cross-National Expert Surveys
(University of Gothenburg, 2015)The data produced by the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project contains ordinal ratings of a multitude of country-level indicators across space and time, with multiple experts providing judgments for each country-year ... -
Negotiations as Usual. Putting Domestic Constraints on the Table in the Council of the European Union
(2015-03-30)The argument developed in this thesis is that negotiations in the Council of the European Union cannot be understood in isolation from the domestic politics of the member states. Building on the logic of Robert Putnam’s ... -
Generalized trust and the collective action dilemma of immunization
(2015-02-11)Immunization is one of the most cost-efficient medical treatments available. But the potential for societies to secure the public health benefits generated by vaccinations can be reduced by the collective action dilemma ... -
The Multiple Dilemmas of Environmental Protection: The Effects of Generalized and Political Trust on the Acceptance of Environmental Policy Instruments
(2014-09-04)With different environmental policy instruments (EPIs) that target individual citizens, the state can change activities or behaviors that have negative environmental consequences. However, EPIs are not likely to be implemented ... -
Magic Wand or Pandoras Box? How transparency in decision making affects public perceptions of legitimacy
(2014-06-11)According to conventional wisdom and political rhetoric, increased transparency in political decision making is a powerful tool to increase public acceptance of decisions and trust in decision makers. The question of why ... -
Does education cause participation in politics?
(2013-11-22)In most studies of political behavior in Western countries, it is found that individuals with higher education participate to a greater extent in political activities than individuals with lower levels of education. ... -
Institutional Impediments and Reluctant Actors – The Limited Role of Democracy Aid in Democratic Development.
(2013-06-10)Poverty reduction and societal modernization have traditionally been the main goals for development aid but increasingly, since the early 1990s, democracy and human rights have ascended in importance and democracy aid has ... -
Självskapelseetik bortom Foucault: En rättviseteori för ett mångkulturellt, liberalt och demokratiskt samhälle
(2013-06-10)I Självskapelseetik bortom Foucault utvecklas en rättviseteori för ett mångkulturellt, liberalt och demokratiskt samhälle. Utgångspunkt tas i Foucaults arbeten om etik och då framförallt i begreppet subjektivation. ... -
Technocracy within Representative Democracy. Technocratic Reasoning and Justification among Bureaucrats and Politicians
(2013-04-19)The terms ‘technocracy’ and ‘technocrat’ are becoming part of common usage and it is frequently argued that technocratic decision-making is increasing due to the growing complexity of political matters. However, there is ... -
National Institutions – International Migration. Labour Markets, Welfare States and Immigration Policy
(2012-12-13)All advanced capitalist countries admit entry to some immigrants and refuse entry to others. Despite the fact that all these countries accept some, but not all, potential immigrants, the variation when it comes to the ...