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Autocracy and Variation in Economic Development Outcomes
(2018)I discuss and analyze the vast variation in development outcomes among autocracies, focusing on economic growth. I highlight plausible explanations of this variation pertaining to features of the leader, institutions, or ... -
Autocratic Ruling Parties During Regime Transitions: Investigating the Democratizing Effect of Strong Ruling Parties
(2020-06)This study examines the role of autocratic ruling party strength in democratic transitions. While the impact of ruling party strength on regime stability is extensively studied, we know much less about when and why ruling ... -
Autocratization by Decree: States of Emergency and Democratic Decline
(2020)States of emergency grant chief executives the power to bypass democratic constraints in order to combat existential threats. As such they are ideal tools to erode democratic institutions while maintaining the illusion of ... -
Autocrats and Skyscrapers: Modern White Elephants in Dictatorships
(2017)Political leaders often have private incentives to pursue expensive and socially wasteful "white elephant" projects. Our argument highlights that weak accountability mechanisms allow autocratic leaders to more easily realize ... -
Bad Wealth - Retesting th Relationship between Natural Resource Abundance and Democracy
(2008-06)How does natural resource abundance influence state and society? Since the late 1980s, a number of scholars have confronted the widespread predisposition to view resources overly optimistically, as a blessing. They claim ... -
Beyond First Elections: The Importance of Consistency in the Timing of Recurrent Elections
(2016)Is the regularity of elections a requisite for political stability? Scholars have empirically examined a number of features regarding elections in new democracies, including frequency, alternation, and orderliness, but ... -
Blaming Europe? Exploring the Variable Impact of National Public Service Dissatisfaction on EU Trust
(2009-06)European Social Survey data suggest that dissatisfaction with national public services has direct negative effects on EU trust in most EU15 countries, but also that there is significant country variation in their actual ... -
Blockchain Technology A Trust or Control Machine? Theory and Experimental Evidence
(2022-03)Blockchaintechnologyhasattractedconsiderableinterestinthelast15years.It is arguedthatBlockchaincansustainanytransactionofvalue,beitmonetaryorinformation, in amannerthatissecureandindependentofinterpersonaltrust.Yet,the ... -
Building Quality of Government? International Organizations and Educational Performance in Africa
(2014-11)Although international organizations are often seen as an important transformative power on the international arena, we know less about how and when they promote better domestic institutions. Using data on education ... -
Bureaucracy, Politics and Corruption
(2009-08)Most comparative studies on corruption are geared towards the analysis of factors dealing with the selection and the incentives of actors taking policy decisions in a state. With few exceptions, such as Rauch & Evans (2000), ... -
Bureaucratic Structure, Regulatory Quality and Entrepreneurship in a Comparative Perspective: Cross-Sectional and Panel Data Evidence
(2014-07)This paper examines the effect of meritocratic recruitment and tenure protection in public bureaucracies on regulatory quality and business entry rates in a global sample. Utilizing a cross-country measure on the extent ... -
Bureaucratic Structures and Organizational Commitment of Senior Public Officials: Evidence from a Cross-National Study of 20 European Countries
(2018-11)In recent years there has been growing scholarly interest in the effects of bureaucratic structures on corruption, socioeconomic development, government effectiveness, policy implementation, and support for democracy. ... -
Buying Quiescence: The Influence of Resource Reliance on Citizens’ Demand for Democracy
(2023-11)Revenues from oil, minerals and gas are important to many states around the world. Some countries rely so heavily on these revenues that they have received the epithet “resource-reliant states.” Controversy remains ... -
CAN CIVIL SOCIETY CURB CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT? A comparative study of the conditional effect of societal accountability in EU regions
(2019-09)Public procurement involves large sums of public funds and is major component of public sector fiscal activity. For this very reason, procurement is vulnerable to corruption, as it presents both motive and ... -
Can Courts be Bulwarks of Democracy?
(2018)Independent judges are thought to promote democratic regime survival by allowing perceived violations of rules limiting arbitrary power to be challenged non-violently in a fair setting, governed by transparent rules. Yet, ... -
Can Efficient Institutions Induce Cooperation Among Low Trust Agents?
(2013-04)The importance of political institutions for economic growth and social well-being has been demonstrated in a number of studies. Societies in which agents trust that other agents will collaborate in establishing and ... -
Can institutions pave the way for the young? Electoral systems and age representation in parliament
(2016-01)Middle-aged to senior men of the ethnic majority and higher income groups are generally overrepresented in parliaments. While research on group representation has examined issues of gender, economic standing and, more ... -
Careers, Connections and Corruption Risks in Europe
(2015-04)Why do officials in some countries favor entrenched contractors while others assign public con-tracts more impartially? According to the research, such variation responds to differences in political institutions, economic ... -
Characterizing and Assessing Temporal Heterogeneity: Introducing a Change Point Framework, with Applications on the Study of Democratization
(2019)Various theories in political science point to temporal heterogeneity in relationships of interest. Yet, empirical research typically ignores such heterogeneity or employs fairly crude measures to evaluate it. Advances in ...