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Öppenhet och korruption
(2005)Det här är en kortversion av den ursprungliga uppsatsen. För ett mer utvecklat teoretiskt resonemang samt mer utförliga resultatredovisningar hänvisas läsaren till den ursprungliga uppsatsen Betydelsen av öppenhet för ... -
Transparency and Corruption: The Conditional Significance of a Free Press
(2005)Is making political institutions more transparent an effective method for combating corruption? Common wisdom in the debate and research on the causes of corruption answers strongly in the affirmative. We argue that this ... -
Political Corruption and Social Trust: An Experimental Approach
(2005)Few experimental studies have investigated important factors for people’s perceptions of the trustworthiness of others. Building on theories that point at the importance of trustworthy government institutions, an experiment ... -
Exploring a Causal Relationship between Vertical and Horizontal Trust
(2005)Three experiments investigating how a possible causal relationship works between vertical trust (i.e., trust in authorities) and horizontal trust (i.e., trust in others) are reported. In Experiment 1, 40 undergraduate ... -
What is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Political Institutions
(2005)The last years have seen a growth in research on “good governance” and the quality of government institutions. This development has been propelled by empirical findings that such institutions might hold the key to ... -
Does Type of Authoritarianism Affect the Prospects for Democracy? Exogenous Shocks and Contingent Democratization
(2006)In this paper we test the often asserted view that the prospects for democratization differ among different types of authoritarian regimes. To what extent do exogenous shocks— economic crisis, popular protest and democratic ... -
All for All: Equality, Corruption and Social Trust
(2006)The importance of social trust has become widely accepted in the social sciences. A number of explanations have been put forward for the stark variation in social trust among countries. Among these, participation in ... -
Political Corruption and Social Trust: An Experimental Approach
(2006)The main question addressed in this paper is how the great variation in the level of social trust between different countries can be explained? Most empirical research on this question has been based on survey data which ... -
The Mechanisms of Corruption: Interest vs. Cognition
(2006)paper starts by identifying a central theoretical problem in contemporary research about political corruption. While a lot of energy has been spent trying to figure out what types of political and economic institutions ... -
Politiskt ledarskap för ändrad jämvikt? En teoretisk framställning och empirisk analys av politiskt ledarskaps betydelse för korruptionsbekämpning
(2007)Det finns stora svårigheter att förklara hur en övergång från korruption till ickekorruption kan fås till stånd. Detta har även följder för den praktiska korruptionsbekämpningen. Ett av problemen är att politiskt ledarskap ... -
The Quality of Government and Social Capital: A Theory of Political Institutions and Generalized Trust
(2007-03)The purpose of this article is to present a new theory on the generation of social capital. In the discussion about the sources of social capital it has been stressed that generalized trust is built up by the citizens ... -
Anti-Corruption - A Big Bang Theory
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Intergenerational Responsibility: Historical Emissions and Climate Change Adaptation
(2007-10)It is widely held that climate change requires that we engage in strategies of adaptation as well as mitigation, but the normative questions surrounding justice in adaptation remains insufficiently investigated. This paper ... -
Corruption as an Institution: Rethinking the Nature and Origins of the Grabbing Hand
(2007-11)The predominant view of corruption within political science and economics today is the principal-agent model. Corruption is modeled as criminal behavior on behalf of some agents entrusted to act on the behalf of some ... -
The Good Society Index
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Web-based expert surveys: The opportunities for conducting web-based elite expert surveys
(2007-11)Web-surveys are today commonly used in a wide range of areas. The interest in web-based surveys is not surprising as they offer a number of advantages compared to traditional mail or telephone interviews. Among the most ... -
Power Sharing, Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization and Government Quality
(2007-12)Do power sharing institutions such as federalism and proportional representation (P.R.) mitigate the potentially negative effects of ethno-linguistic fractionalization on quality of government? Numerous empirical studies ... -
Navigating Towards Effective Fishery Management? Exploring the Dynamics of Compliance
(2007-12)This paper deals with compliance in the European and Swedish fisheries management regimes. It takes on a theoretical exploration of the dynamics of institutional compliance, and extracts six hypotheses based on theoretical ...