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Dissatisfied Democrats, Policy Feedback, and European Welfare States, 1976-2001
(2010-03)
Are citizens’ level of satisfaction with the functioning of democracy affected by
welfare state-related policies and outcomes? Three-level analyses of Eurobarometer
surveys from three decades suggest that generosity in ...
Dimensions of Bureaucracy: A Cross-National Dataset on the Structure and Behavior of Public Administration
(2010-06)
Scholars have emphasized the importance of having a “Weberian bureaucracy” for the
socio-economic development of a country, but few attempts have been made to
measure public administrations according to their degree of ...
Which Dictators Produce Quality of Government?
(2010-05)
This study deals with the effects of authoritarian regimes on state capacity or the
quality of government (QoG): do some types of dictatorship (military, monarchy,
single-party or personalist) perform better than others? ...
A Deadly Mismatch? The Problem of HIV/AIDS in Research and Policy
(2010-03)
According to research, HIV/AIDS is not a disease among others but displays a
number of specific characteristics. To begin with, it is primarily a sexually transmitted
disease and hence involves a large number of taboos ...
Informed Electoral Accountability and the Welfare State: A Conceptual Reorientation with Experimental and Real-World Findings
(2010-03)
Retrospective electoral accountability was conceived as a mechanism that makes
democracy work without highly informed citizens. However, recent theory suggests
accountability in modern societies can be overwhelmingly ...
Quality of Government, Political Power and the Welfare State
(2010-03)
Why have different industrialized capitalist market economies developed such
varying systems for social protection and social insurance? The hitherto most
successful theory for explaining this is the Power Resource Theory ...
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 ...
Transparency and Its Discontents: How IO Transparency Influences Domestic Resistance to Government Reforms
(2010-06)
How do international organizations influence domestic transparency? Studies
typically contend that in order to be instrumental in promoting good government
institutions, international organizations have to embody these ...