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Blockchain Technology A Trust or Control Machine? Theory and Experimental Evidence
(2022-03)Blockchaintechnologyhasattractedconsiderableinterestinthelast15years.It is arguedthatBlockchaincansustainanytransactionofvalue,beitmonetaryorinformation, in amannerthatissecureandindependentofinterpersonaltrust.Yet,the ... -
Electoral Volatility and Regime Survival in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
(2022-02)Party system institutionalization is regarded as a critical underpinning of democracies, but its role in non-democratic systems has been understudied. In this paper, we evaluate whether the concept has meaningful and perhaps ... -
Which Institutions Rule? Unbundling the Democracy-Growth Nexus
(2022-02)Over the past two decades studies of the causal impact of ‘institutions’ and ‘democracy’ on economic prosperity have occupied a prominent position in the cross-country growth litera-ture and within economics more broadly. ... -
A Short History of Contestation and Participation
(2022-01)Contestation and participation are commonly viewed as the two constituent dimensions of electoral democracy. How exactly have these two dimensions been conceptualized and measured in the literature? Are they empirically ... -
Mass Mobilization and Regime Change. Evidence From a New Measure of Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2020
(2022-01)Mass mobilization is an important driver of political change. While some citizens organize collective action in favor of more democratic institutions, others take to the streets to support authoritarian leaders or ... -
Fighting the Disease or Manipulating the Data? Democracy, State Capacity, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022-01)We discuss and analyze how regime type and state capacity shape the abilities and incentives of political leaders to respond to COVID-19. We argue that there is likely a complementary relationship between democracy and ... -
Sexual forms of corruption and sextortion: How to expand research in a sensitive area
(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 ... -
Sweden and the COVID-19 Crisis
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Disappointed expectations: Does the Basque country really enjoy such a high level of quality of government -in European standards- when compared to a backward region such as Andalusia?
(2021-10)The quality of government (QoG) is a concept without an undisputed benchmark. To contribute to its clarification, we propose a novel model of analysis that incorporates formal and informal institu-tions and operationalizes ... -
Provider Ownership and Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care Homes
(2021-09)The provision of social services by private providers is widespread in OECD countries, but the jury is still out on whether marketization has improved service quality. This paper seeks to nuance existing debate by examining ... -
2 Pre-Election Tax Enforcement in Sub-Saharan Africa
(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
(2021-05)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
(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 ... -
Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000-2015 CE
(2021-03)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 ... -
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report
(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 ... -
Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?
(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 ... -
Democratic Regimes and Epidemic Deaths
(2021-08)To what extent do particular regime types provide tangible benefits? During this era of declining faith in democracy globally and assertive alternatives to democracy, identifying democracy’s tangible benefits is particularly ... -
Clientelism, Public Goods Provision, and Governance
(2021-07)It is widely believed that clientelism—the giving of material goods in return for electoral support—is associated with poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of ... -
Pre-Election Tax Enforcement in Sub-Saharan Africa
(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. ...
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