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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, ... -
Social trust among non-Nordic immigrant youth – does context matter?
(2016-02)The question of whether ethnic heterogeneity impedes or enhances general trust has been studied extensively among the general population and among school-youth, but seldom among people in their 20s. This age group is however ... -
Social Trust, Quality of Government and Ethnic Diversity: An Empirical Analysis of 206 Regions of Europe
(2014-12)What factors lead to greater levels of generalized trust in society? The research field has established four channels through which it is commonly argued trust is affected at the macro level—economic inequality, civic ... -
Stairways to Denmark: Does the Sequence of State-building and Democratization Matter for Economic Development?
(2018)Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. We discuss the assumptions that this prominent "stateness-first" argument rests upon and how ... -
State Capacity, Democracy and Public Good Production: The case of Child Mortality
(2018-12)The paper examines government-business relationships by focusing on the effect of the organizational design of public bureaucracies on entrepreneurship in Russia. Using novel data from an expert survey on bureaucratic ... -
State Capacity, Incumbent Turnover and Democratic Change in Authoritarian Elections
(2017)Under what conditions do elections lead to democratization or conversely, sustain authoritarianism? State capacity may be a crucial intervening variable affecting the democratizing power of elections in authoritarian ... -
Strategies of Validation: Assessing the Varieties of Democracy Corruption Data
(2016)Social scientists face the challenge of determining whether their data are valid, yet they lack prac- tical guidance about how to do so. Existing publications on data validation provide mostly abstract information for ... -
Strengthening the Rubber Stamp: Comparing Legislative Powers across Regimes
(2018)In research on authoritarian institutions, legislatures are portrayed as capable of resolving dilemmas between the leader and opposition members. Nevertheless, repeated interactions between a leader and their ruling coalition ... -
Sub-national Quality of Government in EU Member States: Presenting the 2021 European Quality of Government Index and its relationship with Covid-19 indicators
(2021-04)The 2021 European Quality of Government Index (the EQI) is the largest survey ever undertaken to meas-ure perceptions of quality of government, collecting the opinions of over 129,000 respondents in a total of 208 NUTS 1 ... -
Sub-national Quality of Government in EU Member States: Presenting the 2021 European Quality of Government Index and its relationship with Covid-19 indicators
(2021-04)The 2021 European Quality of Government Index (the EQI) is the largest survey ever undertaken to measure perceptions of quality of government, collecting the opinions of over 129,000 respondents in a total of 208 NUTS 1 ... -
Successful and Failed Episodes of Democratization: Conceptualization, Identification, and Description
(2020)What explains successful democratization? This paper makes four contributions towards providing more sophisticated answers to this question. Building on the comparative case study and large-N literature, it first presents ... -
Successful and Failed Episodes of Democratization: Conceptualization, Identification, and Description
(2018)What explains successful democratization? Answering this requires that researchers identify not only countries that successfully transitioned to democracy, but also those that began to liberalize—that initiated institutional ...