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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 ... -
Party Strength and Economic Growth
(2015-09)This study argues that strong parties play a critical role in fostering economic development. The theory explores how parties broaden the constituencies to which policy makers respond and help politicians to solve coordination ... -
Party System Polrisation and Quality of Government: On the Political Correlates of QoG
(2012-10)The Quality of Government (QoG) research program has to date justified the importance of political context in the form of party system type, electoral rules, and political fractionalization for understanding variation in ... -
Party System, Electoral Systems and Constraints on Corruption
(2010-12)This article explores the relationship between the party system, electoral formula and corruption. Previous research has focused on the various incentives for political actors to monitor, or engage in corruption based ... -
Patterns of Regime Breakdown since the French Revolution
(2018)We present a new dataset comprising more than 1900 regimes in 197 polities over the time period 1789-2016. We use this dataset to describe dierent historical patterns of regime duration globally, leveraging ne-grained ... -
Peace Above the Glass Ceiling: The Historial Relationship Between Female Political Empowerment and Civil Conflict
(2018)This paper investigates whether female political empowerment is conducive to civil peace, drawing on global data on female political empowerment over a 200 year period, from the Varieties of Democracy database. We augment ... -
Perceptions of Corruption in Mass Publics
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Perceptions of Corruption in Sweden
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Perceptions of Procedural Fairness and Satisfaction with Democracy in the Nordic Welfare States
(2013-01)The Nordic countries are known for their well-functioning public administrations. In indices measuring control of corruption and the quality of the rule of law, these countries frequently occupy top positions. This article ... -
Perspectives on Gender and Corruption
(2014-11)This paper looks at gender differences in the Quality of Government institute’s regional data on governance in Europe. With point of departure in three different research perspectives on gender and corruption this study ... -
Political Adiminstration: Cultures of fragmentation behind goal-failure
(2009-06)The seminal work of Herbert Kaufman claims that homogenous organizational cultures are crucial for goal achievement throughout organizations with a central-peripheral structure and a task-handling process which cannot be ...