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Variation in Corruption Between Mexican States Elaborating the Gender Perspective
(2010-06)Dollar et al. (2001) sparked off research on gender and corruption. They showed, in a cross-country comparative study, that a high number of women in elected office is related to a low level of corruption. Whether there ... -
Varieties of Democratic Diffusion: Colonial and Neighbor Networks
(2016)Numerous studies have reported that countries tend to become more similar to their immediate geographic neighbors with respect to democracy. We show that a similar process of mutual adjustment can be found within very ... -
Varieties of Forecasts: Predicting Adverse Regime Transitions
(2019)This article introduces the V-Forecast project, the forecasting intuitive of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) institute. In this the initial year of the V-Forecast project, we provide two-year ahead forecasts of the risk ... -
Varieties of Measurement: A Comparative Assessment of Relatively New Democracy Ratings based on Original Data
(2021-05)A series of new democracy measures have been introduced in recent years, many based on previous measures, but some offering original data. This chapter provides critical discussion of three new measures based on original ... -
Violence and the Costs of Honesty: Rethinking bureaucrats’ choice to take bribes
(2015-02)Explanations for bureaucrats’ decisions to take bribes have evolved from accounts of incentives to focusing on expectations of others’ behavior. However, there are plausibly more considerations when making such choices in ... -
Visualizing Authority Patterns over Space and Time
(2020)Unidimensional measures of democracy fail to account for the complex and varied nature of political systems. This article disaggregates the concept of democracy and proposes a multidimensional conceptualization to account ... -
Vote Buying Is A Good Sign: Alternate Tactics of Fraud in Africa 1986-2012
(2015)Over 90 percent of the world’s states currently select their national leaders through multi-party elections. However, in Africa the quality of elections still varies widely, ranging from elections plagued by violence and ... -
Voter Ideology, Party Systems and Corruption Voting in European Democracies
(2014-12)There is growing literature on an increasingly ubiquitous puzzle in many democratic countries: why do corrupt officials continue to be re-elected by voters? In this study we address this issue with a novel theory and newly ... -
Voting Rights of Denizens and Expats: Adjusting Democracy Indices to the Age of Mass Migration
(2020-09)Contemporary migration flows affect virtually all aspects of the social fabric, democracy included. Focusing their attention on the competitiveness aspects of the regime, comparative measurements of democracy have ... -
Vulnerability of Small Island Development States. Does good governance help?
(2015)Small island states have in recent decades been identified as particularly vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change. Violent winds, floods, and draughts have had severe consequences for millions of people and ... -
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties
(2021-03)The recent increase of democratic declines around the world – “the third wave of autocratization” – has sparked a new generation of studies on the topic. Scholars agree that these days the main threat to democracy arises ... -
We are All Customers Now: Understanding the Influence of Economic Theory on Public Administration
(2009-04)Market-based administrative reform has led to a sustained argument among in the public administration field. Some applaud this development on the grounds that it makes public service cheaper and more customer-oriented. ... -
Web-based expert surveys: The opportunities for conducting web-based elite expert surveys
(2007-11)Web-surveys are today commonly used in a wide range of areas. The interest in web-based surveys is not surprising as they offer a number of advantages compared to traditional mail or telephone interviews. Among the most ... -
What Can We Know about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data?
(The Quality of Government Institute (QoG), 2023-10)More than 1100 studies have been published that examine the effects of democracy using cross-national data since 2000. This research note examines whether these analyses have sufficient statistical power to detect an effect ... -
What Do Citizens Think About Redistribution and Aid Within the EU? Description and Highlights of a Pan-European Citizen Survey on Public Support for Cohesion Policy
(2018-02)This paper introduces the main findings and methodology of a new large-scale pan European survey capturing citizens’ support for EUs efforts to reduce inequality between richer and poorer regions in Europe, cohesion policy. ... -
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 ... -
What is Government Transparency? New Measures and Relevance for Quality of Government
(2012-12)As policymakers and researchers focus increasing attention on the importance of government transparency for accountability and good governance more generally, the demand for greater conceptual clarity and authoritative ... -
What is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Political Institutions
(2005)The last years have seen a growth in research on “good governance” and the quality of government institutions. This development has been propelled by empirical findings that such institutions might hold the key to ... -
What is the Best Way to Recruit Public Servants?
(2012-08)What is the best way to recruit public servants? Governments all over the world have the last decades pondered that question, as parts of increasing attempts to reform civil services and public administrations. Two opposing ... -
What Makes Experts Reliable?
(2018)Many datasets use experts to code latent quantities of interest. However, scholars have not explored either the factors affecting expert reliability or the degree to which these factors influence estimates of latent concepts. ...