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Quality of Government Affect Voter Turnout in the European Regions
(2013-03)While much of the literature on voter turnout focuses on institutional and socioeconomic factors related to the “input” side of the political process, we examine the “output” side of the political process – and advance ... -
Quality of Government and Access to Safe Water
(2011-03)According to a conservative estimation by the World Health Organization, 1.2 billion people lack access to sufficient quantities of safe water, and 2.6 billion people are without adequate sanitation. Consequently, 80 percent ... -
Quality of Government and Quality of Water
(2010-06)According to a conservative estimation by the World Health Organization, 1.2 billion people lack access to sufficient quantities of safe water, and 2,6 billion people are without adequate sanitation. Consequently, 80 ... -
Quality of Government in EU Regions: Spatial and Temporal Patterns
(2018-02)A wave of recent cross-national research has pointed to the positive consequences for countries with high levels of ‘quality of government’ (QoG), broadly defined, such as corruption, impartiality, and quality of public ... -
Quality of Government is Needed to Reduce Poverty and Economic Inequality
(2010-03)While it is true that lots of people in some developing countries have been lifted out of poverty during the recent decade, severe poverty remains a huge problem, not least in Sub-Sahara Africa. Recognizing the importance ... -
Quality of Government Makes People Happy
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Quality of Government, Political Power and the Welfare State
(2010-03)Why have different industrialized capitalist market economies developed such varying systems for social protection and social insurance? The hitherto most successful theory for explaining this is the Power Resource Theory ... -
Quality of Government: What You Get
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Reassessing the Democratic Peace: A Novel Test Based on the Varieties of Democracy Data
(2018)The democratic peace is one of the most robust findings in international relations. Yet it suffers from two important limitations. First, even those who fully embrace the democratic peace have difficulty precisely identifying ... -
Rediscovering Bureaucracy: Bureaucratic Professionalism, Impartiality, and Innovation
(2017-07)This study examines an empirical link between bureaucratic structures and country-level innovation outputs. Although there has been growing scholarly attention to public sector innovation, we still have a limited understanding ... -
Reexamining the Relationship Between Press Freedom and Corruption
(2011-11)A widespread and commonly held belief is that a free and independent press fulfills a both significant and important role in fighting corruption. In numerous policy proposals and general recommendations, the importance ... -
Regime Legitimation Strategies (RLS) 1900 to 2018
(2019)In this paper we introduce new expert-coded measures of regime legitimation strategies for 179 countries in the world from 1900 up until 2018 that are comparable across time and space. Country experts have rated the extent ... -
Regimes and Industrialization
(2020-04)A large literature addresses the impact of regimes on domestic policies and outcomes, e.g., education, health, inequality, redistribution, public spending, wages, infrastructure, volatility, productivity, and economic ... -
Regimes In the World (RIW): A Robust Regime Type Measure based on V-Dem
(2017)Classifying political regimes has never been as difficult as in this day and age. Most regimes in the world now hold de-jure multiparty elections with universal suffrage. Yet, in some countries these elections ensure that ... -
Religious Clientelism A theory
(2021)In today’s political science scholarship, the concept of clientelism often evokes an image of voters selling their votes to the highest bidder, where a substantial focus lies on the material nature of the exchange between ... -
Religious Clientelism, A theory
(2021-05)In today’s political science scholarship, the concept of clientelism often evokes an image of voters selling their votes to the highest bidder, where a substantial focus lies on the material nature of the exchange between ... -
Rent Dependency: Bad for Quality of Government
(2009-09)This paper introduces quality of government rather than regime type as dependent variable in studies of the political effects of natural resources. It consists of two parts. First, it theorizes the role of fiscal dependency ... -
Responsiveness and models of representation
(2022-06)Researchontheopinion-policylinkhasshownthatthereisaconnectionbetween public preferencesandimplementedpolicy,albeitbiasedtowardsthepreferencesof the a uent.Wearguethatweneedtolooknotonlytheincomebias,butalsoatthe polit ... -
Rethinking Consensus vs. Majoritarian Democracy
(2018)Arend Lijphart's distinction between two dimensions of consensus and majoritarian democracy has been an influential concept. However, several scholars have reported that the distinction does not travel well to other regions ...