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Is unequal responsiveness caused by high-income earners having more informed opinions?: An empirical test.
(2024-11)Previous research has shown that the affluent see more of their preferred policies realized, which scholars of opinion—policy responsiveness attribute to unequal influence. A rival theory instead states that the reason ... -
Asymmetric Responsiveness: The Effects of Protesters’ Demographics and Policy Preferences on the Political Agenda
(2024-11)Previous research predicts that politicians are responsive to citizens with whom they share demographics or policy preferences. I argue that protests are particularly susceptible to politicians’ di!erential responsiveness. ... -
Individual-Level Determinants of Corruption Perception in Five Areas of Public Life in Sweden Evidence from 2022 SOM Survey
(2024-11)Corruption perceptions are not only shared social norms shaped by societal dynamics, but they also reflections of individual experiences, values, and viewpoints. This study examines the relationship between a set of ... -
Children of the State: Ideological Education Increases Support for Autocratic Leadership
(2024-10)How does exposure to authoritarian content in education affect support for autocratic leadership? While higher levels of education are linked to less support for autocratic leadership, states often leverage education to ... -
Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities for Elderly and COVID-19 Outcomes: A Systematic Literature Review
(2024-09)In many countries, elder citizens residing in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) were disproportionately affected by the SARS-Cov-2. However, The risk of contracting the virus, the incidence of infection, and mortality ... -
Parliamentary Control of Ministerial Policymaking
(2024-09)A key issue in parliamentary democracy centers on the parliament’s ability to contain ministerial drift. Recent scholarship highlights the importance of strong legislative institutions for enforcing the parliament’s wishes, ... -
Rasmus Broms & Elias Markstedt: Local information capacity in Sweden (pdf)
(2024-09)A growing strand of research revolving around the concept of legibility emphasizes the central function that information plays for state capacity accumulation. The bulk of these contributions remain focused on the existence ... -
When Elders Rule: Age Composition in DecisionMaking and Legitimacy Perceptions
(2024-09)How does the predominance of older people in decision-making bodies influence citizens’ evaluations of their legitimacy? Through a survey experiment in the US, we vary the age composition of a bipartisan state legislative ... -
Experimental Evidence from Belgium on Local Politicians’ Engagement with Protests
(2024-09)When do politicians react responsively to protesters demands? I argue that politicians react responsively to protests they anticipate their voters to support — peaceful, large, and actionable protests. In an experiment ... -
The Ethnic Politics of Nature Protection: Ethnic Favoritism and Protected Areas in Africa
(2024-07)Nature protected areas are hailed as an institutional solution to the global biodiversity crisis. However, conservation entails local economic costs for some communities and benefits for others. We propose that the establishment ... -
The Impact of Corruption on Climate Change Mitigation
(2024-05)This is a review of the rapidly growing literature on how corruption affects climate change mitigation, focusing both on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sinks. Analyzing 200 studies, we document that corruption hampers ... -
Environmental NGOs in Emerging Democracies: Obstacles to Effective Action
(2024-04)Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) play an important role in environmental governance. However, ENGO activity does not always lead to favorable outcomes. This paper highlights the ways in which neoliberal ... -
The Geography of Quality of Government in Europe. Subnational variations in the 2024 European Quality of Government Index and Comparisons with Previous Rounds
(2024-02)The 2024 European Quality of Government Index (EQI) collects the opinions of 135,227 respondents in a total of 210 NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 regions in all EU 27 member state countries. This paper, first, presents the 2024 data ... -
Political Headwind: How wind power development influences political trust
(2023-12)Most policy projects aimed at environmental protection are conflictual in their nature and have supporters and opponents. If a policy is implemented without taking into consideration the opinions of policy opponents, there ... -
What helps improve outcomes of industrial policy? Evidence from Russia
(2023-12)In the context of most developing countries, the implementation of industrial policy faces significant challenges related to capacity, access to information, and governance limitations. This situation accounts for the ... -
Factors of carrier promotion for regional and local officials in Russia: Evidence from large-scale list experiment
(2023-12)Support for the government depends on the capacity of authorities to respond to the citizens’ demand, tied to public service quality and incentives for lower and middlelevel officials. We argue that cases of “good enough ... -
Buying Quiescence: The Influence of Resource Reliance on Citizens’ Demand for Democracy
(2023-11)Revenues from oil, minerals and gas are important to many states around the world. Some countries rely so heavily on these revenues that they have received the epithet “resource-reliant states.” Controversy remains ... -
Are different types of corruption tolerated differently?
(2023-11)In the past two decades, abundant research on corruption has established its negative impact on human well-being. Indeed, general scholarship finds that it is appropriately shunned across contexts, with citizens in ... -
Dimensions of State Capacity and Modes of Democratic Breakdown
(The Quality of Government Institute (QoG), 2023-10)State weakness is often emphasized as a key determinant of democratic breakdowns. However, previous studies have failed to appreciate how different aspects of state weakness pose different challenges. Against this backdrop, ... -
The Dynamics of Emotions in Protests
(The Quality of Government Institute (QoG), 2023-10)This paper investigates the role of emotions during protest participation. While multidisciplinary research considers negative triggers a crucial factor for protesting, few studies causally test whether negative emotions ...
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