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Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and Its Implications for Contemporary Debates
(2020-09)Endemic corruption in developing countries often seems intractable. Yet most countries that cur-rently have relatively high public integrity were, at an earlier point in their history, afflicted with sim-ilarly pervasive ... -
Taxation and Government Quality: The Size, the Shape, or Just Europe 300 Years Ago?
(2011-12)Based on historical research, focusing mainly on early-modern Europe, it is assumed that taxation functions as a booster of state capacity and Quality of Government (QoG). The presence of this relationship for modern-day ... -
Taxation and Turnout in Swedish Municipalities
(2019-12)The link between taxation and representation is considered foundational to the emergence of demo-cratic governance. Nevertheless, the empirical relationship between taxation and the extent to which citizens actually exert ... -
Taxation as a Social Contract: Public goods and collective action in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2020-12)Increasing tax revenue is an important aspect of development policy as it is associated with sustainable economic development. This requires tax compliance, and to increase tax compliance it is vital to understand ... -
Taxation, Democracy and State-Building: How Does Sequencing Matter?
(2012-05)What is the relationship between democracy and taxation, under conditions of ‘reverse’ sequencing? Existing theories about taxation and democracy have presumed this relationship to be positive, but they have largely been ... -
The Abandoned Trustees. Explaining Corruption in Local Government
(2016-09)This paper engages in the debate about how different ways of organizing relations between politicians and bureaucrats affect corruption. Research has established robust correlations between the political autonomy of ... -
The Accountability Sequence: From De-jure to De-facto Constraints on Governments
(2017)Accountability is one of the cornerstones of good governance. Establishing accountable governments is a top priority on the international development agenda. Yet, scholars and democracy practitioners know little about how ... -
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: less stimulating in corrupt states
(2010-12)The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was an attempt to “jump-start the economy to create and save jobs” by inducing state spending on an enormous scale. 787 billion US dollars were allocated to the act, ... -
The Autocratic Trust Bias: Politically Sensitive Survey Items and Self-censorship
(2017)Because of the perceived risk of repression some survey questions are likely sensitive in more autocratic countries while less so in more democratic countries. Yet, survey data on potentially sensitive topics are frequently ... -
The Business Case for Democracy
(2020-10)I present a business case for democracy, focusing on the impact of democracy on economic growth. This relationship is widely studied, and results are less clear for growth than many other development outcomes such as ... -
The conditions of successful civil society involvement in combating corruption: A survey of case study evidence
(2008-10)Corruption interferes with and distorts the political and implementation processes, often to the disadvantage of the already disadvantaged. Yet our understanding of the factors that might propel a political system from ... -
The Early Modern Origins of Contemporary European Tax Systems
(2016-03)What explains variation in tax outcomes? Many studies emphasize the role played by institutions, focusing on those of relatively recent times. We argue that contemporary tax systems have deeper institutional origins in the ... -
The Effect of Public Perceptions of Corruption on System Support: The Case of Sweden
(2011-03)Traditionally, Sweden is viewed as a country where corruption and abuse of power for personal gains have been regarded as rare exceptions. Accordingly, Sweden is consistently found at the top in various international ... -
The Effects of an Education Reform on Democratic Citizenship
(2008-07)In the mid 1990s an extensive reform of the Swedish educational system took place in order to create a ‘school for everyone’ that was intended to function like a ‘social equalizer’. The new unified gymnasium initiated ... -
The electoral consequences of institutional failure: A comparative study of audits, rulers, and voters in Swedish municipalities
(2018-12)Electoral accountability is widely considered an essential element for ascertaining institutional quality. Nevertheless, and contrary to this notion, a growing body of empirical research finds weak or limited support for ... -
The ethnography of corruption: research themes in political anthropology
(2011-03)One striking feature of the booming literature on corruption in the social sciences is the comparatively weak role played by anthropology. A recent World Bank review notices that anthropological studies dealing with ... -
The Failure of Anti-Corruption Policies: A Theoretical Mischaracterization of the Problem
(2010-06)With an increased awareness of the detrimental effects of corruption on development, strategies to fight it are now a top priority in policy circles around the world. Since Africa is home to most of the thoroughly corrupt ... -
The Focal Power of Anticorruption Law: Insights from Italian State-Building
(2019-01)Until recently, it has been taken for granted that laws play an important role in the fight against corruption. However, a recent debate casts doubt on the influence of laws to curb corruption in societies with systemic ... -
The Geography of Quality of Government in Europe. Subnational variations in the 2024 European Quality of Government Index and Comparisons with Previous Rounds
(2024-02)The 2024 European Quality of Government Index (EQI) collects the opinions of 135,227 respondents in a total of 210 NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 regions in all EU 27 member state countries. This paper, first, presents the 2024 data ... -
The Good Society Index
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