Browsing by Author "The QoG institute"
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2How People Around the WorldassessDemocracy Communicating Online
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2The effect of gender on corruption: Sorting out explanations for gender differences with new exper-imental research
Kubbe, Ina; Alexander, Amy; Wängnerud, Lena (2019-12)An extensive literature demonstrates a relationship between gender and corruption, with women be-ing less involved in corrupt transactions than men. There are two major ways of explaining this cor-relation; one emphasizes ... -
Conflict-resolvers or tools of electoral struggle?Swedish commissions of inquiry 1990-2016
Dahlström, Carl; Lundberg, Erik; Kira, Pronin (2020-04)Many countries face growing challenges of democratic governance from political polarizationand the increasingly complex nature of policy problems. The question is then how can governments build consensus and confer ... -
Environmental protection in authoritarian regimes: Investigating the role of pluralism.
Carlitz, Ruth; Povitkina, Marina (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 ... -
Hits close to home: Shootings and support for the Sweden Democrats
Sundell, Anders (2020-12)Do instances of public gun violence increase support for Radical Right Parties? Using a pseudo-experimental design, this study investigates the impact of shootings in Sweden 2011-2018 on support for the Sweden Democrats. ... -
Institutional Quality Causes Social Trust: Evidence from Survey and Experimental Data on Trusting Under the Shadow of Doubt
Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; Povitkina, Marina; Jagers, Sverker C.; Rothstein, Bo (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 ... -
Measures of State Capacity: Same Same, but Different?
Vaccaro, Andrea (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. ... -
Municipally owned enterprises and heightened corruption risks
Erlingsson, Gissur Ó; Wittberg, Emanuel; Lindström, Markus (2020-03)Some scholars argue that there areunattractive, unintended side-effects of the ‘quasi-privatizations’ that have been associated with New Public Management(NPM).One aspect of this question is the international trend towards ... -
Populism and Politicization of the Bureaucracy: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effect of Populist Rule in Europe and Latin America
Hammarén, Martin (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 ... -
Social trust - The Nordic Gold?
Holmberg, Sören (2020-01)Interpersonal trust is among the highest in the world in Scandinavia. Since everything in a society functions better with high trust lowering all transaction costs trustful Scandinavi-ans is truly a Nordic Gold. However, ... -
Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and Its Implications for Contemporary Debates
Cuellar, Mariano-Florentino; Stephenson, Matthew C. (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 ... -
Taxation and Turnout in Swedish Municipalities
Broms, Rasmus (2019-12)The link between taxation and representation is considered foundational to the emergence of demo-cratic governance. Nevertheless, the empirical relationship between taxation and the extent to which citizens actually exert ... -
Taxation as a Social Contract: Public goods and collective action in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tengs, Elise (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 Link between Ethnic Fractionalization and Corruption Revised: Ethnic Voting in Africa
Bernhardsson, Håkan (2019-12)This paper revisits the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and corruption. Earlier literature argues that ethnic fractionalization leads to corruption via mechanisms involving ethnic in-groupfavoritism. ... -
The Roots of Female Emancipation: The Initializing Role of Cool Water
Manuel, Santos Silva; Amy C., Alexander; Stephan, Klasen; Christian, Welzel (2020-12)Reviewing the literature on the deep historic roots of gender inequality, we theorize and provide evidence for a trajectory that (1) originates in a climatic configuration called the “Cool Water” (CW-) ... -
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 ... -
Who votes for Anti-Corruption Parties? The Emergence of a New Party Family
Bågenholm, Andreas; Charron, Nicholas (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 ...