Browsing by Author "Sundström, Aksel"
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Can institutions pave the way for the young? Electoral systems and age representation in parliament
Stockemer, Daniel; Sundström, Aksel (2016-01)Middle-aged to senior men of the ethnic majority and higher income groups are generally overrepresented in parliaments. While research on group representation has examined issues of gender, economic standing and, more ... -
Compliance dynamics in transboundary governance of natural resources
Linell, Amanda; Sjöstedt, Martin; Sundström, Aksel (2017-10)The extent to which resource users abide by rules is a fundamental question in the governance of conservation efforts, such as national parks, often challenged by poaching. While a large literature studies the factors ... -
Corruption and violations of conservation rules: A survey experiment with resource users
Sundström, Aksel (2015)Small-scale corruption in government administrations that govern natural resources is believed to have a negative impact on conservation management. Yet, while corruption is said to obstruct the implementation of conservation ... -
Corruption in Governance of the Commons: Consequences and Reform Challenges
Sundström, Aksel (2015-11-13)Research on governance of common-pool resources (CPRs) has discussed the design of regulations that govern the usage of CPRs and the need to enforce such rules. However, the focus on self-management in this literature may ... -
Corruption in the Commons: Why Bribery Hampers Enforcement of Environmental Regulations in South African Fisheries
Sundström, Aksel (2012-08)Few studies have explored on the micro-level why corruption hampers environmental regulations. The relationship between corruption and regulatory compliance is here investigated through confidential in-depth interviews ... -
Covenants with Broken Swords: Corruption and law enforcement in governance of the commons
Sundström, Aksel (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 ... -
Democracy and Economic Development
Povitkina, Maryna; Jagers, Sverker C.; Sjöstedt, Martin; Sundström, Aksel (2013-02)Is democracy favorable or adverse for the environment? While some studies find democracy to increase the likelihood of achieving sustainable development, others propose that democracy rather has negative effects on the ... -
Drought and Political Trust
Ahlerup, Pelle; Sundström, Aksel; Jagers, Sverker C; Sjöstedt, Martin (University of Gothenburg, 2023-04)Droughts can affect people’s political trust positively, through rallying effects, or negatively, through blame attribution. We examine how drought conditions affect political trust in the context of Africa. We link ... -
Drought and Trust
Ahlerup, Pelle; Sundström, Aksel; Jagers, Sverker C.; Sjöstedt, Martin (2023-04)Droughts can affect people’s political trust positively, through rallying effects, or negatively, through blame attribution. We examine how drought conditions affect political trust in the context of Africa. We link ... -
Examining Gender Differences in Environmental Concern Across Four Levels of the Swedish Polity
Sundström, Aksel; McCright, Aaron M. (2013-06)While numerous studies find modest, consistent gender differences in environmental concern with-in the general publics of North American and European countries, such a pattern has not been studied much among elected ... -
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 ... -
Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?
Sjöstedt, Martin; Sundström, Aksel; Jagers, Sverker C.; 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 ... -
Introducing the Worldwide Age Representation in Parliaments (WARP) Dataset
Daniel Stockemer; Stockemer, Daniel (2022-04)Research increasingly highlights the social group composition of decision-making bodies in politics. Beyond issues of gender and ethnicity, an emerging literature focuses on age groups. The absence of young adults in elected ... -
No Democratic Transition Without Women’s Rights: A Global Sequence Analysis 1900-2012
Wang, Yi-ting; Lindenfors, Patrik; Sundström, Aksel; Jansson, Fredrik; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2015-09)What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? Research has focused on socioeconomic and institutional factors, yet the assumption that political liberalization has to precede democratization has not been ... -
Not to be Used During Fire: Performance-related pay for civil servants as an anticorruption tool
Sundström, Aksel (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 ... -
Paradise Islands? Island States and the Provision of Environmental Goods
Jagers, Sverker C.; Povitkina, Marina; Sjöstedt, Martin; Sundström, Aksel (2013-11)Island states have been shown to trump continental states on collective action-related outcomes, such as democracy and institutional quality. The argument tested in this article contends that the same logic might apply to ... -
Quality of Government Affect Voter Turnout in the European Regions
Sundström, Aksel; Stockemer, Daniel (2013-03)While much of the literature on voter turnout focuses on institutional and socioeconomic factors related to the “input” side of the political process, we examine the “output” side of the political process – and advance ... -
Sexual forms of corruption and sextortion: How to expand research in a sensitive area
Sundström, Aksel; Wängnerud, Lena (2021-12)There is increasing attention among advocacy organizations about the urgent problem of sextortion and other ways in which sexual forms of corruption hurts vulnerable people. Yet, scholarly understandings of this challenge ... -
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report
Nistotskaya, Marina; Dahlberg, Stefan; Dahlström, Carl; Sundström, Aksel; Axelsson, Sofia; Mert Dalli, Cem; Alvarado Pachon, Natalia (2021-03)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 ...