Browsing by Author "Lapuente, Victor"
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Bureaucracy, Politics and Corruption
Dahlström, Carl; Lapuente, Victor; Teorell, Jan (2009-08)Most comparative studies on corruption are geared towards the analysis of factors dealing with the selection and the incentives of actors taking policy decisions in a state. With few exceptions, such as Rauch & Evans (2000), ... -
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 ... -
Civil War Spain versus Swedish Harmony: The Quality of Government Factor
Lapuente, Victor; Rothstein, Bo (2010-04)In 1936, while Sweden gave birth to one of the most peaceful solutions to class conflict (i.e. the Neo-Corporatist Welfare State) with the iconic signature of the Saltsjöbaden Accord, Spain gave birth to the most violent ... -
Cooperation or Punishment. The Effects of Trust on Government Regulation and Taxation.
Harring, Niklas (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 ... -
Corruption and Antibiotic Use in the European Regions
Rönnerstrand, Björn; Lapuente, Victor (2015-03)Objective: To investigate the association between two measures of corruption – prevalence of corruption in the health sector and prevalence of bribes in the society – and antibiotic consumption in the European regions. ... -
Dimensions of bureaucracy II: A cross-national dataset on the structure and behaviour of public administration
Dahlström, Carl; Lapuente, Victor; Teorell, Jan (2011-07) -
Dimensions of Bureaucracy: A Cross-National Dataset on the Structure and Behavior of Public Administration
Dahlström, Carl; Lapuente, Victor; Teorell, Jan (2010-06)Scholars have emphasized the importance of having a “Weberian bureaucracy” for the socio-economic development of a country, but few attempts have been made to measure public administrations according to their degree of ... -
Do City Managers Improve Government Performance?
Drapalova, Eliska; Lapuente, Victor (2017-04)Why do some local governments perform better than others that are socioeconomically, culturally, and geographically close? This paper examines variation in local government performance across 209 Catalan municipalities ... -
Do You Believe Me? Public Sector Incentive Systems in Japan, Korea, Spain, and Sweden
Dahlström, Carl; Lapuente, Victor (2008-12)This paper presents a theoretical hypothesis for understanding the success of performance-related incentives in the public sector, based on insights developed in the private sector. The paper argues that incentives are ... -
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 ... -
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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Myths of Corruption Prevention: What is (not) good with a Weberian Bureaucracy?
Dahlström, Carl; Lapuente, Victor (2011-11)It is often stated that the public sector should be separated from politics and that an isolated bureaucracy, in this sense, is less prone to corruption. The cornerstone of such propositions is that the activities of ... -
New Public Management as Trust Problem: Explaining Cross-country Differences in the Adoption of Performance-related Pay in the Public Sector
Dahlström, Carl; Lapuente, Victor (2008-04)This paper aims to explain cross-country variations in a paradigmatic element of NPM reforms: the shift from low-powered incentives (i.e. flat salaries) to high-powered one (i.e. performance-related pay systems). The paper ... -
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 ... -
Parties, Congress, and the Stock Market
Ederer, Matthias; Fernández-Albertos, José; Lapuente, Victor (2008-11)Recent literature in both finance and political science has identified a series of systematic patterns in the way stock market responds to significant political events. The lack of a common theoretical core as well as ... -
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 ... -
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 Abandoned Trustees. Explaining Corruption in Local Government
Parrado, Salvador; Lapuente, Victor; Dahlström, Carl (2016-09)This paper engages in the debate about how different ways of organizing relations between politicians and bureaucrats affect corruption. Research has established robust correlations between the political autonomy of ...