Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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Corruption, Gender Equality and Feminist Strategies.
(2016-07)The following arguments are presented. 1) Corruption in its various forms is a serious social ill. 2) Democracy is not a safe cure against corruption. 3) Increased gender equality seems to be one im-portant factor behind ... -
“Gimme Shelter”: The Role of Democracy and Institutional Quality in Disaster Preparedness
(2016)Natural disasters cause suffering for millions of people around the globe every year and as climate change unfolds the likelihood of natural catastrophes is increasing. While weather shocks, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, ... -
Democracy, Democratization, and Civil War
(2016)An influential body of scholarship has associated both democracy and democratization with civil war. Important findings include the so-called inverted U-shaped relationship between democracy-levels and civil war onset and ... -
Cooperation or Punishment. The Effects of Trust on Government Regulation and Taxation.
(2016-05)For many economists government intervention is linked to low levels of interpersonal trust and corruption, while, on the contrary, for many political scientists, government intervention is associ-ated to high trust and low ... -
The State in Democratic Breakdowns: Who, How, and Why
(2016-04)It is often invoked that in modern times the state is a prerequisite for democracy to endure. How-ever, cross-national research typically applies this as a static assumption rather than a dynamic caus-al proposition. ... -
The Early Modern Origins of Contemporary European Tax Systems
(2016-03)What explains variation in tax outcomes? Many studies emphasize the role played by institutions, focusing on those of relatively recent times. We argue that contemporary tax systems have deeper institutional origins in the ... -
Democratic advantages in corruption control. New Evidence from Anti-Corruption Cases across 154 Countries
(2016-03)Does democracy reduce corruption? While much recent research has focused on the ability of citizens in democracies to hold politicians accountable through regular elections, other institutional features of democracy such ... -
Sequential Requisites Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Sequential Relationships in Ordinal Data
(2016)This paper presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outcome variables across numerous combinations of ordinal variables in social ... -
Varieties of Democratic Diffusion: Colonial and Neighbor Networks
(2016)Numerous studies have reported that countries tend to become more similar to their immediate geographic neighbors with respect to democracy. We show that a similar process of mutual adjustment can be found within very ... -
Beyond First Elections: The Importance of Consistency in the Timing of Recurrent Elections
(2016)Is the regularity of elections a requisite for political stability? Scholars have empirically examined a number of features regarding elections in new democracies, including frequency, alternation, and orderliness, but ... -
Democratization in Conflict Studies: How Conceptualization Affects Operationalization and Testing Outcomes
(2016)Using the debate over democratization and conflict, we demonstrate how the connec- tion between conceptualization and operationalization can play a decisive role in the testing of falsifiable hypotheses. We discuss seven ... -
Choosing from the Menu of Manipulation: Explaining Incumbents’ Choices of Electoral Manipulation Tactics
(2016)How do political actors choose between different tactics of electoral manipulation, and how does the context in which elections take place shape those decisions? In this paper we argue that choices for specific manipulative ... -
A General Theory of Power Concentration: Demographic Influences on Political Organization
(2016)Why is the exercise of political power highly concentrated in some polities and widely dispersed in others? We argue that one persistent causal factor is demographic. Populous polities are characterized by more concentrated ... -
UN Electoral Assistance: Does it Matter for Election Management?
(2016)Between 2007 and 2014 the United Nations (UN) provided technical, financial and logistical assistance to half of all elections held outside of established democracies. Does UN Electoral Assistance (UNEA) substantially ... -
Measuring Subnational Democracy
(2016)Social scientists and practitioners have been limited in their work by the paucity of data about subnational institutions and practices. Such data could help scholars refine regime typologies, improve theories of democratization ... -
Measuring Electoral Democracy with V-Dem Data: Introducing a New Polyarchy Index
(2016)This paper presents a new measure of electoral democracy, or "polyarchy", for a global sample of 173 countries from 1900 to the present based on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) data, enabling us to address several ... -
Social trust among non-Nordic immigrant youth – does context matter?
(2016-02)The question of whether ethnic heterogeneity impedes or enhances general trust has been studied extensively among the general population and among school-youth, but seldom among people in their 20s. This age group is however ... -
Can institutions pave the way for the young? Electoral systems and age representation in parliament
(2016-01)Middle-aged to senior men of the ethnic majority and higher income groups are generally overrepresented in parliaments. While research on group representation has examined issues of gender, economic standing and, more ... -
Taxation and Government Quality
(2016-02-11)The question of what creates government quality, or good institutions, is one of the central puzzles in modern political science. This dissertation investigates a hitherto underexplored cause: taxation. Historical research ...