Department of Political Science / Statsvetenskapliga institutionen: Recent submissions
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Institutional Quality Causes Social Trust: Evidence from Survey and Experimental Data on Trusting Under the Shadow of Doubt
(2020-12)Social trust is a crucial ingredient for successful collective action. What causes social trust to develop, however, remains poorly understood. The quality of political institutions has been proposed as a candidate driver ... -
Uncooperative Society, Uncooperative Politics or Both? How Trust, Polarization and Populism Explain Excess Mortality for COVID-19 across European regions
(2020-12)Why have some territories performed better than others in the fight against COVID-19? This paper uses a novel dataset on excess mortality, trust and political polarization for 153 European regions to explore the role of ... -
Who votes for Anti-Corruption Parties? The Emergence of a New Party Family
(2020-12)Corruption and issues related to quality of government are becoming increasingly salient to both voters and parties all around the globe. One indication of that is the steady increase in the number of electoral campaigns ... -
Taxation as a Social Contract: Public goods and collective action in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2020-12)Increasing tax revenue is an important aspect of development policy as it is associated with sustainable economic development. This requires tax compliance, and to increase tax compliance it is vital to understand ... -
The Business Case for Democracy
(2020-10)I present a business case for democracy, focusing on the impact of democracy on economic growth. This relationship is widely studied, and results are less clear for growth than many other development outcomes such as ... -
Worth the sacrifice? Illiberal and authoritarian practices during Covid-19
(2020-09)Excessive use of emergency powers and limitations of media freedoms have raised concerns that Covid-19 is infecting democracy itself. How do government responses to Covid-19 violate democratic standards? How do such ... -
Empirical Dimensions of Electoral Democracy
(2020-09)This paper investigates conceptual ambiguities concerning the dimensionality of democracy and what it can tell us about political development. We explore variation in components of the Electoral Democracy Index from the ... -
Institutions of Electoral Integrity and Clientelism: The Role of Electoral Management Bodies
(2020-09)While clientelism is most often viewed as a symptom of traditional politics, empirical evidence suggests that it is actually a varied and multifaceted phenomenon, found in widely differing economic, political, and cultural ... -
Measures of State Capacity: Same Same, but Different?
(2020-09)This study provides a systematic comparative analysis of seven established cross-national measures of state capacity by focusing on three measurement issues: validity, interchangeability, and rating discrepancy. ... -
Democracy Promotion and Electoral Quality: A Disaggregated Analysis
(2020-09)The international community spends significant sums of money on democracy promotion and support, focusing especially on producing competitive and transparent electoral environments in the developing world. In theory, this ... -
Populism and Politicization of the Bureaucracy: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effect of Populist Rule in Europe and Latin America
(2020-09)Do populist rule lead to more politicization? As populists have had electoral success in many coun-tries in recent years, populism has received much attention both in the public debate and in political science. One aspect ... -
Voting Rights of Denizens and Expats: Adjusting Democracy Indices to the Age of Mass Migration
(2020-09)Contemporary migration flows affect virtually all aspects of the social fabric, democracy included. Focusing their attention on the competitiveness aspects of the regime, comparative measurements of democracy have ... -
Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and Its Implications for Contemporary Debates
(2020-09)Endemic corruption in developing countries often seems intractable. Yet most countries that cur-rently have relatively high public integrity were, at an earlier point in their history, afflicted with sim-ilarly pervasive ... -
Cui Bono? Business Elites and Interstate Conflict
(2020-08)We address how regime supporters affect war-making by re-opening a classic debate on business elites and their influence on states' conflict behavior. Imperialist theories contend that business elites encourage executives ... -
Mating and Political Inequality
(2020-08-20)Political equality is one of the cornerstones of a well-functioning democracy. Yet, very few democracies live up to this ideal. In this dissertation, I show that a central part of human behavior, mating, can help us explain ... -
Explaining the Homogeneous Diffusion of Covid-19 Policies among Heterogenous Countries
(V-Dem Institute, 2020-08)The need for non-pharmaceutical interventions aimed at curtailing the spread of infectious diseases depends crucially on country-specific demographic and public health situations. However, the early stages of the Covid-19 ... -
Female Empowerment and Economic Growth
(2020-06)We discuss how inclusive institutions enhance technological change, the main driver of long-term economic growth. Specifically, institutions that promote female political empowerment advance technological change through ... -
Environmental protection in authoritarian regimes: Investigating the role of pluralism.
(2020-06)When and how do authoritarian states secure environmental protection? Answering thisquestion is critical given that over half of the world’s population currently live in suchregimes. Furthermore, the ... -
Autocratic Ruling Parties During Regime Transitions: Investigating the Democratizing Effect of Strong Ruling Parties
(2020-06)This study examines the role of autocratic ruling party strength in democratic transitions. While the impact of ruling party strength on regime stability is extensively studied, we know much less about when and why ruling ...