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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 ... -
Roba Pero Hace? An experimental test of the competence-corruption tradeoff hypothesis in Spain and Sweden
(2014-02)From previous research it is known that one of the main mechanisms that limits the ability of elections to be effective in controlling corruption has to do with a sort of implicit exchange of transparency for competence, ... -
Scandal Fatigue: Scandal Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy in Western Europe 1977-2007
(2009-07)We combine Eurobarometer surveys with contextual data from 19 countries and three decades, and find that elections are increasingly associated with major scandals. In the late 1970s few elections were associated with ... -
School’s out! Information Cues and Retrospective Voting in the Case of School Closures in Sweden
(2022-09)While researchprovidesevidencethatvoters’considergovernments’ past performance,littleisknownaboutwhichinformationvoterspay attentionto.Wesuggesttwocompetingtheoriesofretrospective voting:Outcome-orientedvotersonlyreac ... -
Seeing the State: The Implications of Transparency for Societal Accountability
(2010-06)International organizations and NGOs promote transparency as a necessary condition for enhancing accountability and curbing corruption. Transparency is predicted to deter corruption in part by increasing the opportunities ... -
Self-Censorship in Authoritarian States: Response bias in measures of popular support in China
(2018)The study of popular support for authoritarian regimes, and the comparative study of political attitudes, has long relied on the assumption that survey respondents provide truthful answers on surveys. However, when measuring ... -
Sequential Requisites Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Sequential Relationships in Ordinal Data
(2016)This paper presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outcome variables across numerous combinations of ordinal variables in social ... -
Sexual forms of corruption and sextortion: How to expand research in a sensitive area
(2021-12)There is increasing attention among advocacy organizations about the urgent problem of sextortion and other ways in which sexual forms of corruption hurts vulnerable people. Yet, scholarly understandings of this challenge ... -
Social Protection Strategies in Efficient and Inefficient States
(2009-12)It is well known that social and labor market policies vary greatly among the advanced industrialized countries, not just in terms of overall spending but also in terms of the allocation of resources across different ... -
Social trust - The Nordic Gold?
(2020-01)Interpersonal trust is among the highest in the world in Scandinavia. Since everything in a society functions better with high trust lowering all transaction costs trustful Scandinavi-ans is truly a Nordic Gold. However, ...