Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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The Question of How Denmark Got to be Denmark - Establishing Rule of Law and Fighting Corruption in the State of Denmark 1600 - 1900
(2014-06)This article shows how fighting corruption and establishing rule of law has been on the agenda of the Danish rule for more than 350 years and how the level of corruption in the administration of state came to be limited ... -
Bureaucratic Structure, Regulatory Quality and Entrepreneurship in a Comparative Perspective: Cross-Sectional and Panel Data Evidence
(2014-07)This paper examines the effect of meritocratic recruitment and tenure protection in public bureaucracies on regulatory quality and business entry rates in a global sample. Utilizing a cross-country measure on the extent ... -
On the Road to Better Governance: The "Middle Class Particularism" and Quality of Government
(2014-09)This paper merges two large bodies of literature – that concerned with the effects of regime type on institutional quality, and research on the middle classes’ effects on the economy and society at large – with the purpose ... -
Covenants with Broken Swords: Corruption and law enforcement in governance of the commons
(2014-10)Insights of how corruption hampers law enforcement in governance of common-pool resources are currently limited. This article develops our understanding of this process through interviews with enforcement officials in South ... -
Not to be Used During Fire: Performance-related pay for civil servants as an anticorruption tool
(2014-10)The last decades’ restructuring of public administrations has in numerous countries included the use of performance-related pay (PRP) programs. Such reforms have been said to reduce civil servants’ incentives for corrupt ... -
Corruption and Political Participation
(2014-11)Based on an understanding of political participation as key for a functioning democracy, the paper examines the relationship between corruption perceptions and political participation. Founded on previous literature on the ... -
Correlates of the Good Society
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Perspectives on Gender and Corruption
(2014-11)This paper looks at gender differences in the Quality of Government institute’s regional data on governance in Europe. With point of departure in three different research perspectives on gender and corruption this study ... -
Voter Ideology, Party Systems and Corruption Voting in European Democracies
(2014-12)There is growing literature on an increasingly ubiquitous puzzle in many democratic countries: why do corrupt officials continue to be re-elected by voters? In this study we address this issue with a novel theory and newly ... -
Nepotism and Meritocracy
(2014-12)Despite the crucial importance of a well-functioning and impartial public administration for growth and well-being, we know little of how such bureaucracies can be created, and why elites allow them to be. One reason for ... -
Correlates of Corruption
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Correlates of the Level of Democracy
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Social Trust, Quality of Government and Ethnic Diversity: An Empirical Analysis of 206 Regions of Europe
(2014-12)What factors lead to greater levels of generalized trust in society? The research field has established four channels through which it is commonly argued trust is affected at the macro level—economic inequality, civic ... -
Correlates of Quality of Government
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Turning a Blind Eye? The Impact of Corruption on Aid Fatigue
(2014-11)Why do donors continue to send foreign aid to corrupt countries, despite that corruption is increasingly seen as detrimental to economic and environmental development? This study unpacks the complex relationship between ... -
Building Quality of Government? International Organizations and Educational Performance in Africa
(2014-11)Although international organizations are often seen as an important transformative power on the international arena, we know less about how and when they promote better domestic institutions. Using data on education ... -
Correlates of the Economist's Index of Democracy
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The Structure of the Executive in Authoritarian and Democratic Regimes: Regime Dimensions across the Globe, 1900-2014
(2015)This paper attempts to integrate the literatures on authoritarian regime types and democratic forms of government. Based on different modes of executive appointment and dismissal, I propose a parsimonious theory of five ... -
The Winner-Loser Gap in Satisfaction with Democracy Over Time: Evidence from a Swedish citizen panel
(2015-01)Several studies have demonstrated a gap in political support between electoral winners and losers. This research has generated a large stock of knowledge about the causes and effects of this winner-loser gap. Due to the ...