Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th Century
(2018)The Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset (Historical V-Dem) is a new dataset containing about 260 indicators, both factual and evaluative, describing various aspects of political regimes and state institutions. The ... -
Reassessing the Democratic Peace: A Novel Test Based on the Varieties of Democracy Data
(2018)The democratic peace is one of the most robust findings in international relations. Yet it suffers from two important limitations. First, even those who fully embrace the democratic peace have difficulty precisely identifying ... -
On Revolutions
(2018)Sometimes the normal course of events is disrupted by a particularly swift and profound change. Historians have often referred to such changes as "revolutions" and, though they have identied many of them, they have rarely ... -
Democracy, Quality of Government, and Public Goods Provision: The Case of Water Management
(2018)A large strand of research has argued that democracy with its broad representation and electoral accountability is beneficial for the provision of public goods to the general population. However, there is a large variation ... -
The large-scale collective action dilemma of recycling: Exploring the role of trust
(2017-12)Household recycling contributes to environmental sustainability goals by limiting the extraction of natural resources. Previous literature has mapped out several factors, mainly at the individual level, that tend to increase ... -
An Interactive Model of the Democratic Peace: Revisiting the Theory with Elastic Measures
(2018)Democracies do not take up arms against each other. This axiom has attained the status of a mantra in the field of international relations. As previous research has shown, however, the truth of this statement is highly ... -
Do Political Finance Laws Reduce Corruption?
(2018)Most countries regulate political finance and many offer public subsidies to political parties or candidates. Proponents of political finance regulations claim that public money reduces corruption in politics, while opponents ... -
Let’s play: Bribery Games in the U.S. and Germany
(2017-12)This article focuses on behavioral differences across cultures in an experimental bribery game that contributes to cross-country comparisons. To answer the question “What affects an individual’s propensity to engage in and ... -
Campaigning in Poetry, Governing in Prose: Pre- and Post-Election Effects of Election Pledge Rhetoric
(2017-12-18)In election campaigns, parties often use value-laden words such as freedom and competitiveness, to reach out to voters with their election pledges and policy proposals. While it is well known that the presence of such words ... -
Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Decoupled from GDP Growth in Well-functioning Democracies?
(2017)Empirical studies of the relationship between GDP per capita and country-level CO2 emissions tend to focus on the direct effect of per capita GDP growth, rarely taking political institutions into consideration. This paper ... -
Governing the Grey Zone: Why Hybrid Regimes in Europe’s Eastern Neighborhood Pursue Partial Governance Reforms
(2017-12-04)Every year the European Union, as well as numerous other international organizations, states, and transnational networks wield ample resources to promote democratic governance in the developing countries. However, the ... -
Easier said than done? Implementing RTI-laws in Sweden
(2017-11)Transparency is widely recognized as a prerequisite for accountability, good governance and de-mocracy. As right to information (RTI) laws have spread, it is pressing to ask to what extent having ambitious formal legislative ... -
The Accountability Sequence: From De-jure to De-facto Constraints on Governments
(2017)Accountability is one of the cornerstones of good governance. Establishing accountable governments is a top priority on the international development agenda. Yet, scholars and democracy practitioners know little about how ... -
Ethical Codes for the Public Administration. A Comparative Survey
(2017-11)This report is an analysis of a number of ethical codes for the national public administration. We present four theoretically grounded reasons for why such codes have been established and in many countries are seen as ... -
Eroding Regimes: What, Where, and When?
(2017)The political world lately seems to be filled with unexpected erosions of democracy. What is the most useful way to describe these phenomena? Do they all belong to a common syndrome? Certainly there are different degrees ... -
Neopatrimonialism and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation of Africa's Political Regimes
(2017)One of the most common adjectives used to describe democracy in sub-Saharan Africa is "neopatrimonial". Characterized by strong executives, pervasive clientelism and use of state resources for political legitimation (Bratton ... -
Party Institutionalization and Welfare State Development
(2017)We propose that the extent to which political parties are institutionalized shapes welfare state development. Institutionalized parties allow politicians to overcome coordination problems, avoid capture by special interests, ... -
The Prudent Entrepreneurs. Women and Public Sector Innovation
(2017-10)This paper suggests a new argument to explain gender differences in public management: the “prudent entrepreneur theory.” We hypothesize that male and female public managers have three differences in their attitudes towards ... -
Compliance dynamics in transboundary governance of natural resources
(2017-10)The extent to which resource users abide by rules is a fundamental question in the governance of conservation efforts, such as national parks, often challenged by poaching. While a large literature studies the factors ...