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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 ... -
Measuring Subnational Democracy
(2016)Social scientists and practitioners have been limited in their work by the paucity of data about subnational institutions and practices. Such data could help scholars refine regime typologies, improve theories of democratization ... -
Measuring the Potential of Direct Democracy Around the World (1900-2014)
(2015)To what extent is direct democracy achieved in current polities? To answer this question, I develop an index, Direct Democracy Practice Potential (DDPP), which is applied to 200 polities worldwide. This index results from ... -
Minorities and Mistrust: The Cushioning Impact of Social Contacts and Institutional Fairness
(2008-08)Previous research concludes that immigrants and minority members, as well as all residents of more diverse contexts, display less generalized trust. Such findings suggest a harsh trade-off between diversity on the one hand ... -
Moving beyond Categorical Measures of Gender in Corruption Research
(2018-11)There are a growing number of studies with the ambition to present causal reasoning linking the presence of women in political organizations to reductions in levels of corruption. The theoretical mechanisms proposed are ... -
MPs, Clientelism, and Collective Goods
(2011-11)The present analysis indicates that MPs in Ghana's young democracy has begun to act on the implications of this accountability and that voters in this African country do evaluate their political leaders not only on personal ... -
Multiple Measurements, Elusive Agreement, and Unstable Outcomes in the Study of Regime Change
(2017)This comprehensive analysis of regime change indicators reveals that problems of conceptualization and measurement are major reasons why current research fails to draw compelling conclusions that foster cumulative knowledge. ... -
Municipality Merger and Local Democracy: An assessment of the merger of Japanese municipalities.
(2017-07)Municipal mergers have been widely used as a tool for administrative reform (Fox and Gurley-Calvez 2006; OECD 2014). While municipal mergers have been planned or implemented with the hope of increasing efficiencies in ... -
Municipally owned enterprises and heightened corruption risks
(2020-03)Some scholars argue that there areunattractive, unintended side-effects of the ‘quasi-privatizations’ that have been associated with New Public Management(NPM).One aspect of this question is the international trend towards ...