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Navigating Towards Effective Fishery Management: Exploring the Impact of Imbalanced Burdens on Regime Legitimacy
(2008-04)Despite two decades of the Common Fishery Policy (CFP), the fishery politics of the European Union (EU) is considered a failure when it comes to securing fish-stocks. This paper explores reasons to this state of affairs ... -
Navigating Towards Effective Fishery Management? Exploring the Dynamics of Compliance
(2007-12)This paper deals with compliance in the European and Swedish fisheries management regimes. It takes on a theoretical exploration of the dynamics of institutional compliance, and extracts six hypotheses based on theoretical ... -
Neopatrimonialism and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation of Africa's Political Regimes
(2017)One of the most common adjectives used to describe democracy in sub-Saharan Africa is "neopatrimonial". Characterized by strong executives, pervasive clientelism and use of state resources for political legitimation (Bratton ... -
Nepotism and Meritocracy
(2014-12)Despite the crucial importance of a well-functioning and impartial public administration for growth and well-being, we know little of how such bureaucracies can be created, and why elites allow them to be. One reason for ... -
New Governance, New Democracy?
(2009-03)Across the western world there is today a search for new models of democratic governance. Central, regional and local institutions are redesigned. Public service systems are transforming into market-like organizations ... -
New public management and municipal performance: Do NPM reforms boost performance?
(2018-12)New Public Management (NPM) reforms have been adopted worldwide since the mid-1970s to improve government effectiveness and efficiency. The basic premise of NPM reforms is that market orientation and management focus in ... -
New Public Management as Trust Problem: Explaining Cross-country Differences in the Adoption of Performance-related Pay in the Public Sector
(2008-04)This paper aims to explain cross-country variations in a paradigmatic element of NPM reforms: the shift from low-powered incentives (i.e. flat salaries) to high-powered one (i.e. performance-related pay systems). The paper ... -
No Democratic Transition Without Women’s Rights: A Global Sequence Analysis 1900-2012
(2015-09)What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? Research has focused on socioeconomic and institutional factors, yet the assumption that political liberalization has to precede democratization has not been ... -
No Law without a State
(2010-05)There is a large and growing interest in the prevailing cross-country differences many well-functioning institutions, such as judicial independence and high quality laws, and desirable social outcomes, such as a low ... -
Not to be Used During Fire: Performance-related pay for civil servants as an anticorruption tool
(2014-10)The last decades’ restructuring of public administrations has in numerous countries included the use of performance-related pay (PRP) programs. Such reforms have been said to reduce civil servants’ incentives for corrupt ... -
O Brasil na perspectiva do Projeto Variedades da Democracia
(2015)In this article we present results for Brazil collected by the Varieties of Democracy project. We describe the historical evolution of democracy in Brazil from 1900 to 2012, focusing on its five main components (electoral, ... -
On Revolutions
(2018)Sometimes the normal course of events is disrupted by a particularly swift and profound change. Historians have often referred to such changes as "revolutions" and, though they have identied many of them, they have rarely ... -
On the Road to Better Governance: The "Middle Class Particularism" and Quality of Government
(2014-09)This paper merges two large bodies of literature – that concerned with the effects of regime type on institutional quality, and research on the middle classes’ effects on the economy and society at large – with the purpose ... -
Opposition Parties and Elite Co-optation in Electoral Autocracies
(2021-05)Autocratic incumbents often attempt to co-opt select opposition party leaders to minimize threats to their rule. While the literature identifies co-optation of opposition party leaders as an important survival strategy of ... -
Öppenhet och korruption
(2005)Det här är en kortversion av den ursprungliga uppsatsen. För ett mer utvecklat teoretiskt resonemang samt mer utförliga resultatredovisningar hänvisas läsaren till den ursprungliga uppsatsen Betydelsen av öppenhet för ... -
Paradise Islands? Island States and the Provision of Environmental Goods
(2013-11)Island states have been shown to trump continental states on collective action-related outcomes, such as democracy and institutional quality. The argument tested in this article contends that the same logic might apply to ... -
Parties, Congress, and the Stock Market
(2008-11)Recent literature in both finance and political science has identified a series of systematic patterns in the way stock market responds to significant political events. The lack of a common theoretical core as well as ... -
Party Institutionalization and Welfare State Development
(2017)We propose that the extent to which political parties are institutionalized shapes welfare state development. Institutionalized parties allow politicians to overcome coordination problems, avoid capture by special interests, ... -
Party Organizations Around the Globe. Introducing the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization Dataset (V-Party)
(2021-07)Although party organization plays a key role in a range of theories from democratic accountability and representation to democratic breakdown or the electoral success and persistence of parties, data on party organizational ...