Browsing by Author "QoG The Quality of Government Institute"
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Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?
Sjöstedt, Martin; Sundström, Aksel; C. Jagers, Sverker; Ntuli, Herbert (2021-03)Rulers of weak states face a predicament. They lack capacity to monitor crime and need citizens to partake in intelligence-sharing. Yet, agents of such authorities are seldom trusted, raising doubts about whether locals ... -
Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000-2015 CE
D’Arcy, Michelle; Nistotskaya, Marina; Olsson, Ola (2021)Since the transition to agricultural production, property rights to land have been a key institution for economic development. Clearly defined land rights provide economic agents with increased access to credit, secure ... -
Pre-Election Tax Enforcement in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tengs, Elise (2021-06)Using the literature on the political business cycle as a point of departure, this paper investigates whether incumbent politicians manipulate the enforcement of tax collection prior to elections, in order to win votes. ... -
Religious Clientelism A theory
Varraich, Aiysha (2021)In today’s political science scholarship, the concept of clientelism often evokes an image of voters selling their votes to the highest bidder, where a substantial focus lies on the material nature of the exchange between ... -
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 Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report
Nistotskaya, Marina; Dahlberg, Stefan; Dahlström, Carl; Sundström, Aksel; Axelsson, Sofia; Dalli, Cem Mert; Alvarado Pachon, Natalia (2021)The Quality of Government Expert Survey (QoG Expert Survey) is a research project aimed at documenting the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior in countries around the world. This report ...