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UN Electoral Assistance: Does it Matter for Election Management?
(2016)Between 2007 and 2014 the United Nations (UN) provided technical, financial and logistical assistance to half of all elections held outside of established democracies. Does UN Electoral Assistance (UNEA) substantially ... -
Unbundling secure property rights
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Uncooperative Society, Uncooperative Politics or Both? How Trust, Polarization and Populism Explain Excess Mortality for COVID-19 across European regions
(2020-12)Why have some territories performed better than others in the fight against COVID-19? This paper uses a novel dataset on excess mortality, trust and political polarization for 153 European regions to explore the role of ... -
Understanding illegality and corruption in forest management: A literature review
(2016-01)This review synthesizes the literature studying illegality and government corruption in forest man-agement. After discussing the theoretical connections between different types of corruption and illegal forest-related ... -
Understanding Satisfaction with the Way Democracy Works: Democracy versus Bureaucracy
(2012-08)The present study is focusing on system factors related to the input side of the democratic system, i.e. the electoral dimension, as well as factors related to the out-put side, i.e. the quality of government. Hence, we ... -
Understanding the Quality of Government in China: The Cadre Administration Hypothesis
(2012-12)China’s remarkable development poses a problem for theories that have stressed the importance of institutions producing “good governance” and minimizing corruption. As a possible solution to this problem, the following ten ... -
V-Dem Comparisons and Contrasts with Other Measurement Projects
(2017)For policymakers, activists, academics, and citizens around the world the conceptualization and measurement of democracy matters. The needs of democracy promoters and social scientists are convergent. We all need better ... -
Variation in Corruption Between Mexican States Elaborating the Gender Perspective
(2010-06)Dollar et al. (2001) sparked off research on gender and corruption. They showed, in a cross-country comparative study, that a high number of women in elected office is related to a low level of corruption. Whether there ... -
Varieties of Democratic Diffusion: Colonial and Neighbor Networks
(2016)Numerous studies have reported that countries tend to become more similar to their immediate geographic neighbors with respect to democracy. We show that a similar process of mutual adjustment can be found within very ... -
Varieties of Forecasts: Predicting Adverse Regime Transitions
(2019)This article introduces the V-Forecast project, the forecasting intuitive of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) institute. In this the initial year of the V-Forecast project, we provide two-year ahead forecasts of the risk ... -
Varieties of Measurement: A Comparative Assessment of Relatively New Democracy Ratings based on Original Data
(2021-05)A series of new democracy measures have been introduced in recent years, many based on previous measures, but some offering original data. This chapter provides critical discussion of three new measures based on original ... -
Violence and the Costs of Honesty: Rethinking bureaucrats’ choice to take bribes
(2015-02)Explanations for bureaucrats’ decisions to take bribes have evolved from accounts of incentives to focusing on expectations of others’ behavior. However, there are plausibly more considerations when making such choices in ... -
Visualizing Authority Patterns over Space and Time
(2020)Unidimensional measures of democracy fail to account for the complex and varied nature of political systems. This article disaggregates the concept of democracy and proposes a multidimensional conceptualization to account ... -
Vote Buying Is A Good Sign: Alternate Tactics of Fraud in Africa 1986-2012
(2015)Over 90 percent of the world’s states currently select their national leaders through multi-party elections. However, in Africa the quality of elections still varies widely, ranging from elections plagued by violence and ... -
Voter Ideology, Party Systems and Corruption Voting in European Democracies
(2014-12)There is growing literature on an increasingly ubiquitous puzzle in many democratic countries: why do corrupt officials continue to be re-elected by voters? In this study we address this issue with a novel theory and newly ... -
Voting Rights of Denizens and Expats: Adjusting Democracy Indices to the Age of Mass Migration
(2020-09)Contemporary migration flows affect virtually all aspects of the social fabric, democracy included. Focusing their attention on the competitiveness aspects of the regime, comparative measurements of democracy have ... -
Vulnerability of Small Island Development States. Does good governance help?
(2015)Small island states have in recent decades been identified as particularly vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change. Violent winds, floods, and draughts have had severe consequences for millions of people and ... -
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties
(2021-03)The recent increase of democratic declines around the world – “the third wave of autocratization” – has sparked a new generation of studies on the topic. Scholars agree that these days the main threat to democracy arises ... -
We are All Customers Now: Understanding the Influence of Economic Theory on Public Administration
(2009-04)Market-based administrative reform has led to a sustained argument among in the public administration field. Some applaud this development on the grounds that it makes public service cheaper and more customer-oriented. ...