Browsing by Author "The Quality of Government Institute"
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Danger all Along. How foreign military threats and domestic power-sharing shape autocratic state-building.
Åsblad, Magnus (2022-12)Standard international relations accounts hold that military buildup by neighboring states leads to increased state-building efforts by authoritarian rulers. In contrast, this study shows that only some dictators will ... -
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 ... -
Electoral Clientelism and Redistribution: How Vote Buying Undermines Citizen Demand for Public Services
Bauhr, Monika (2023-09)Does electoral clientelism limit public demand for programmatic redistribution? While recent studies suggest that distribution of pre-electoral clientelist transfers can divert resources from post-electoral programmatic ... -
ExecutiveAppointmentsunderLegislativeOversight
Dahlström, Carl; Holmgren, Mikael (2023-03)A largeliteraturearguesthattheexecutive’sappointmentpowersmaybestowthem with asignificantpolicyadvantageagainstthelegislature.Inpractice,however,the legislature mayalsodeployavarietyofinstrumentstostrikebackatopportuni ... -
The impact of organized crime on decent jobs for youth. Evidence from Italy
Bianchi, Federica (2023-08)Young people face enormous difficulties in finding decent jobs both in developed and developing countries. The estimates indicate that 68 million young people globally are looking for a job; 123 million are working but ... -
The intergenerational transfer of public sector jobs: Nepotism or social reproduction?
Wittberg, Emanuel (2023-04)Do kinship ties affect one’s chances of acquiring a public sector job and do they, in such cases, trump formal qualifications? These questions have been subject to scrutiny by both scholars and policymakers, but to date, ... -
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 ... -
Introducing Uncertainty: Community Driven Development and Local Collective Action Capacity
Boräng, Frida; Grimes, Marcia; Ahlborg, Helene (2022-12)In areas with entrenched poverty and weak state presence, community driven development (CDD) initia-tives aim to secure the provision of services such as water, waste water and electricity, while engaging the community as ... -
Legal Pluralism and Fragmented Sovereignty in Iraq
Kao, Kristen (2022-06)In post-con ictsettings,thestate'sauthorityhasbeenunderminedanditsinsti- tutions arestrugglingtoreestablishlegitimacy.Suchsettingscreateapowervacuum that alternativeorderscan ll.Wherestateandnon-statelegalorderscoexis ... -
Logics of Action: How state institutions may undergird or undermine participatory development
Ahlborg, Helene; Boräng, Frida; Grimes, Marcia (2023-03)Participatory development has strong normative appeal. In areas with entrenched poverty and poor public service provision, participatory initiatives are predicted to empower otherwise silent members of a demos, improve ... -
Political Will for Anti-Corruption Reform: Communicative pathways to collective action in Ukraine
Keudel, Oleksandra; Grimes, Marcia; Huss, Oksana (2023-03)The importance of political will to bring about institutional reform to reduce corruption is universally rec-ognized, but little is known about when and how it emerges. This paper examines six local settings which exhibit ... -
Pre-suffrage impartiality, democratic experience and clientelism: How sequencing matters
Kyriacou, Andreas P. (2023-01)It has been asserted that clientelism today is weaker in countries that were endowed with impartial public administrations prior to the extension of suffrage because the presence of bureaucratic checks undermines clientelism ... -
Responsiveness and models of representation
Persson, Mikael; Sundell, Anders (2022-06)Researchontheopinion-policylinkhasshownthatthereisaconnectionbetween public preferencesandimplementedpolicy,albeitbiasedtowardsthepreferencesof the a uent.Wearguethatweneedtolooknotonlytheincomebias,butalsoatthe polit ... -
School’s out! Information Cues and Retrospective Voting in the Case of School Closures in Sweden
Gren, Simon; Leuschner, Elena (2022-09)While researchprovidesevidencethatvoters’considergovernments’ past performance,littleisknownaboutwhichinformationvoterspay attentionto.Wesuggesttwocompetingtheoriesofretrospective voting:Outcome-orientedvotersonlyreac ... -
Who gains access to public services? Social Bargaining, Corruption and Street-level Service Provision
Bauhr, Monika; Carlitz, Ruth; Kovacikova, Lucia (2023-02)Despite massive global investments in public services, sizeable discrepancies remain in terms of people’s needs being met once they are in contact with service providers — what we term effective access. This study investigates ...