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2 Pre-Election Tax Enforcement in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tengs, Elise (2021-06)Using the literature on the political business cycle as a point of departure, this paper investigates whether incumbent politicians manipulate the enforcement of tax collection prior to elections, in order to win votes. ... -
Disappointed expectations: Does the Basque country really enjoy such a high level of quality of government -in European standards- when compared to a backward region such as Andalusia?
Jiménez-Sánchez, Fernando; Ros-Medina, José Luis; Villoria-Mendieta, Manuel (2021-10)The quality of government (QoG) is a concept without an undisputed benchmark. To contribute to its clarification, we propose a novel model of analysis that incorporates formal and informal institu-tions and operationalizes ... -
Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?
Sjöstedt, Martin; Sundström, Aksel; Jagers, Sverker C.; Ntuli, Herbert (2021-03)Rulers of weak states face a predicament. They lack capacity to monitor crime and need citizens to partake in intelligence-sharing. Yet, agents of such authorities are seldom trusted, raising doubts about whether locals ... -
Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000-2015 CE
D’Arcy, Michelle; Nistotskaya, Marina; Olsson, Ola (2021-03)Since the transition to agricultural production, property rights to land have been a key institution for economic development. Clearly defined land rights provide economic agents with increased access to credit, secure ... -
Provider Ownership and Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care Homes
Broms, Rasmus; Dahlström, Carl; Nistotskaya, Marina (2021-09)The provision of social services by private providers is widespread in OECD countries, but the jury is still out on whether marketization has improved service quality. This paper seeks to nuance existing debate by examining ... -
Religious Clientelism, A theory
Varraich, Aiysha (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 ... -
Sexual forms of corruption and sextortion: How to expand research in a sensitive area
Sundström, Aksel; Wängnerud, Lena (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 ... -
Sub-national Quality of Government in EU Member States: Presenting the 2021 European Quality of Government Index and its relationship with Covid-19 indicators
Charron, Nicholas; Lapuente, Victor; Bauhr, Monika (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 ... -
Sweden and the COVID-19 Crisis
Dahlström, Carl; Lindvall, Johannes (2021-10) -
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report
Nistotskaya, Marina; Dahlberg, Stefan; Dahlström, Carl; Sundström, Aksel; Axelsson, Sofia; Mert Dalli, Cem; Alvarado Pachon, Natalia (2021-03)The Quality of Government Expert Survey (QoG Expert Survey) is a research project aimed at documenting the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior in countries around the world. This report ...