Browsing by Author "Charron, Nicholas"
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Building Quality of Government? International Organizations and Educational Performance in Africa
Bauhr, Monika; Charron, Nicholas (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 ... -
Careers, Connections and Corruption Risks in Europe
Charron, Nicholas; Dahlström, Carl; Fazekas, Mihály; Lapuente, Victor (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 ... -
Correlates of Corruption in India: Analysis and Evidence from the States
Charron, Nicholas (2009-06)Several leading indicators of corruption point to a serious problem in India on whole. Yet what explains the substantial variance of corruption levels perceived and experienced by citizens across Indian states? Surprisingly ... -
Does Democracy Produce Quality of Government?
Charron, Nicholas; Lapuente, Victor (2009-01)This paper analyzes the effects of political regimes over state capacity or the quality of government (QoG): do democratic states perform better than authoritarian ones? Previous studies on this puzzle point to a nonlinear ... -
Exploring the Impact of Foreign Aid on Corruption: Has the 'Anti-Corruption' Aid been Effective?
Charron, Nicholas (2009-12)Though many studies have referred to an ‘anti-corruption movement’ beginning in the 1990’s by major international organizations, none has empirically tested its effectiveness on corruption. The data show that from 1997 ... -
From Åland to Ankara: European Quality of Government Index. 2013 Data, Sensitivity Analysis and Final Results
Charron, Nicholas (2013-07)This paper presents the latest version of the European Quality of Government Index (‘EQI’). The data builds on a previously published data from 2010 (Charron, Lapuente and Rothstein 2013; Charron, Dijkstra and Lapuente ... -
Mapping Quality of Government in the European Union: A Study of National and Sub-National Variation
Charron, Nicholas; Dijkstra, Lewis; Lapuente, Victor (2010-12)This study maps-out the variation in quality of government (‘QoG’ - e.g. low levels or corruption, protection of the rule of law, government effectiveness and accountability) for the national and regional level in the ... -
Measuring Meritocracy in the Public Sector in Europe: a New National and Sub-National Indicator
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No Law without a State
Charron, Nicholas; Dahlström, Carl; Lapuente, Victor (2010-05)There is a large and growing interest in the prevailing cross-country differences many well-functioning institutions, such as judicial independence and high quality laws, and desirable social outcomes, such as a low ... -
Party System, Electoral Systems and Constraints on Corruption
Charron, Nicholas (2010-12)This article explores the relationship between the party system, electoral formula and corruption. Previous research has focused on the various incentives for political actors to monitor, or engage in corruption based ... -
Power Sharing, Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization and Government Quality
Charron, Nicholas (2007-12)Do power sharing institutions such as federalism and proportional representation (P.R.) mitigate the potentially negative effects of ethno-linguistic fractionalization on quality of government? Numerous empirical studies ... -
Quality of Government in EU Regions: Spatial and Temporal Patterns
Charron, Nicholas; Lapuente, Victor (2018-02)A wave of recent cross-national research has pointed to the positive consequences for countries with high levels of ‘quality of government’ (QoG), broadly defined, such as corruption, impartiality, and quality of public ... -
Social Trust, Quality of Government and Ethnic Diversity: An Empirical Analysis of 206 Regions of Europe
Charron, Nicholas; Rothstein, Bo (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 ... -
Sub-national Quality of Government in EU Member States: Presenting the 2021 European Quality of Government Index and its relationship with Covid-19 indicators
Charron, Nicholas; Lapuente, Victor; Bauhr, Monika (2021-04)The 2021 European Quality of Government Index (the EQI) is the largest survey ever undertaken to meas-ure perceptions of quality of government, collecting the opinions of over 129,000 respondents in a total of 208 NUTS 1 ... -
Sub-national Quality of Government in EU Member States: Presenting the 2021 European Quality of Government Index and its relationship with Covid-19 indicators
Charron, Nicholas; Lapuente, Victor; Bauhr, Monika (2021-04)The 2021 European Quality of Government Index (the EQI) is the largest survey ever undertaken to measure perceptions of quality of government, collecting the opinions of over 129,000 respondents in a total of 208 NUTS 1 ... -
The Geography of Quality of Government in Europe. Subnational variations in the 2024 European Quality of Government Index and Comparisons with Previous Rounds
Charron, Nicholas; Lapuente, Victor; Bauhr, Monika (2024-02)The 2024 European Quality of Government Index (EQI) collects the opinions of 135,227 respondents in a total of 210 NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 regions in all EU 27 member state countries. This paper, first, presents the 2024 data ... -
The Impact of Socio-Political Integration and Press Freedom on Corruption in Developing Countries
Charron, Nicholas (2008-03)Do domestic institutions filter the effects of international openness on levels of government corruption? The analyses in this study demonstrate a more nuanced understanding of a previously understood phenomenon — that ... -
The Wealth of Regions: Government Quality and Entrepreneurship in Europe
Charron, Nicholas; Lapuente, Victor; Nistotskaya, Marina (2012-10)This paper argues that government quality – operationalized as the ability of government to treat all their citizens in an impartial way – levels the ‘playing field’ for economic agents with and without connections to ... -
Trust, Regulation and Redistribution
Charron, Nicholas; Harring, Niklas; Lapuente, Victor (2019-05)For many social scientists government intervention is linked to low levels of social trust and corruption, while, on the contrary, for others government intervention is associated with high trust and low corruption. We aim ... -
Uncooperative Society, Uncooperative Politics or Both? How Trust, Polarization and Populism Explain Excess Mortality for COVID-19 across European regions
Charron, Nicholas; Lapuente, Victor; Rodriguez-Pose, Andrés (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 ...