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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 ... -
Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000-2015 CE
(2021)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 ... -
Legal Pluralism and Fragmented Sovereignty in Iraq
(2022-06)In post-con ictsettings,thestate'sauthorityhasbeenunderminedanditsinsti- tutions arestrugglingtoreestablishlegitimacy.Suchsettingscreateapowervacuum that alternativeorderscan ll.Wherestateandnon-statelegalorderscoexis ... -
Legalize It: An argument for formalizing petty corruption wen state capacity is low
(2012-03)Corruption in the form of informal payments to bureaucrats for public services are a major problem around the world. There are however few theories of how countries can get rid of corruption. I argue that petty corruption ... -
Let’s play: Bribery Games in the U.S. and Germany
(2017-12)This article focuses on behavioral differences across cultures in an experimental bribery game that contributes to cross-country comparisons. To answer the question “What affects an individual’s propensity to engage in and ... -
Local Democracy and Economic Growth
(2016)Theoretical work on the institutional sources of economic growth regards decentralization and democracy in a positive light. Despite this, empirical work shows that neither fiscal decentralization nor national democracy ... -
Logics of Action: How state institutions may undergird or undermine participatory development
(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 ... -
Losing gamble: Mainstream parties' failed strategy to counter anti-immigrant parties
(2011-03)The emergence of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe has provoked very different responses from mainstream parties. Some have tried to counter the antiimmigrant parties, while others have tried to recapture lost voters ... -
Making Sense of Corruption Perceptions: Who to Ask (and About What?) - Evidence from Iceland
(2016-10)The extent of corruption in Iceland is highly contested. International corruption measures indicate a relatively small amount of corruption, while domestic public opinion suggest a serious corruption problem. Thus, uncertainty ... -
Mapping Quality of Government in the European Union: A Study of National and Sub-National Variation
(2010-12)This study maps-out the variation in quality of government (‘QoG’ - e.g. low levels or corruption, protection of the rule of law, government effectiveness and accountability) for the national and regional level in the ... -
Marketization and the Quality of Residential Elderly Care in Sweden
(2018-11)Against a backdrop of increased levels of marketization of welfare services in OECD countries, this article aims to shed light on the separate effects of private ownership and competition on service quality. Using residential ... -
Mass Education, State-Building and Equality: Searching for the Roots of Corruption
(2012-07)The roots of corruption are highly contested. We argue that there is a path dependence across almost a century and a half and present five theoretical arguments for the existence of a causal mechanism between universal ... -
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 ... -
Measures of State Capacity: Same Same, but Different?
(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. ... -
Measuring Electoral Democracy with V-Dem Data: Introducing a New Polyarchy Index
(2016)This paper presents a new measure of electoral democracy, or "polyarchy", for a global sample of 173 countries from 1900 to the present based on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) data, enabling us to address several ... -
Measuring High Level Democratic Principles using the V-Dem Data
(2015)While the definition of extended conceptions of democracy has been widely discussed, the measurement of these constructs has not attracted similar attention. In this paper we present new measures of polyarchy, liberal ... -
Measuring Political Participation in Southern Europe: The Varieties of Democracy Approach
(2015)Most schools of democratic theory consider political participation to have a positive impact in deepening democracy. Political participation makes democracies more accountable and freer, as well as creating more engaged, ... -
Measuring Politically-relevant Ientity, With and Without Groups
(2021-03)Quantitative scholarship on civil conflict still largely relies upon the ethnic group as the foundation for measures of politically-relevant diversity and, in particular, identity-based political inclusion. However, ethnicity ...