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Environmental NGOs in Emerging Democracies: Obstacles to Effective Action
(2024-04)Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) play an important role in environmental governance. However, ENGO activity does not always lead to favorable outcomes. This paper highlights the ways in which neoliberal ... -
The Geography of Quality of Government in Europe. Subnational variations in the 2024 European Quality of Government Index and Comparisons with Previous Rounds
(2024-02)The 2024 European Quality of Government Index (EQI) collects the opinions of 135,227 respondents in a total of 210 NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 regions in all EU 27 member state countries. This paper, first, presents the 2024 data ... -
Political Headwind: How wind power development influences political trust
(2023-12)Most policy projects aimed at environmental protection are conflictual in their nature and have supporters and opponents. If a policy is implemented without taking into consideration the opinions of policy opponents, there ... -
What helps improve outcomes of industrial policy? Evidence from Russia
(2023-12)In the context of most developing countries, the implementation of industrial policy faces significant challenges related to capacity, access to information, and governance limitations. This situation accounts for the ... -
Factors of carrier promotion for regional and local officials in Russia: Evidence from large-scale list experiment
(2023-12)Support for the government depends on the capacity of authorities to respond to the citizens’ demand, tied to public service quality and incentives for lower and middlelevel officials. We argue that cases of “good enough ... -
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 ... -
Are different types of corruption tolerated differently?
(2023-11)In the past two decades, abundant research on corruption has established its negative impact on human well-being. Indeed, general scholarship finds that it is appropriately shunned across contexts, with citizens in ... -
Dimensions of State Capacity and Modes of Democratic Breakdown
(The Quality of Government Institute (QoG), 2023-10)State weakness is often emphasized as a key determinant of democratic breakdowns. However, previous studies have failed to appreciate how different aspects of state weakness pose different challenges. Against this backdrop, ... -
The Dynamics of Emotions in Protests
(The Quality of Government Institute (QoG), 2023-10)This paper investigates the role of emotions during protest participation. While multidisciplinary research considers negative triggers a crucial factor for protesting, few studies causally test whether negative emotions ... -
Accountability in Swedish Political Parties? Survey evidence of misconduct and whistleblowing
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What Can We Know about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data?
(The Quality of Government Institute (QoG), 2023-10)More than 1100 studies have been published that examine the effects of democracy using cross-national data since 2000. This research note examines whether these analyses have sufficient statistical power to detect an effect ... -
Electoral Clientelism and Redistribution: How Vote Buying Undermines Citizen Demand for Public Services
(2023-09)Does electoral clientelism limit public demand for programmatic redistribution? While recent studies suggest that distribution of pre-electoral clientelist transfers can divert resources from post-electoral programmatic ... -
The impact of organized crime on decent jobs for youth. Evidence from Italy
(2023-08)Young people face enormous difficulties in finding decent jobs both in developed and developing countries. The estimates indicate that 68 million young people globally are looking for a job; 123 million are working but ... -
The intergenerational transfer of public sector jobs: Nepotism or social reproduction?
(2023-04)Do kinship ties affect one’s chances of acquiring a public sector job and do they, in such cases, trump formal qualifications? These questions have been subject to scrutiny by both scholars and policymakers, but to date, ... -
Drought and Trust
(2023-04)Droughts can affect people’s political trust positively, through rallying effects, or negatively, through blame attribution. We examine how drought conditions affect political trust in the context of Africa. We link ... -
ExecutiveAppointmentsunderLegislativeOversight
(2023-03)A largeliteraturearguesthattheexecutive’sappointmentpowersmaybestowthem with asignificantpolicyadvantageagainstthelegislature.Inpractice,however,the legislature mayalsodeployavarietyofinstrumentstostrikebackatopportuni ... -
Logics of Action: How state institutions may undergird or undermine participatory development
(2023-03)Participatory development has strong normative appeal. In areas with entrenched poverty and poor public service provision, participatory initiatives are predicted to empower otherwise silent members of a demos, improve ... -
Political Will for Anti-Corruption Reform: Communicative pathways to collective action in Ukraine
(2023-03)The importance of political will to bring about institutional reform to reduce corruption is universally rec-ognized, but little is known about when and how it emerges. This paper examines six local settings which exhibit ... -
Who gains access to public services? Social Bargaining, Corruption and Street-level Service Provision
(2023-02)Despite massive global investments in public services, sizeable discrepancies remain in terms of people’s needs being met once they are in contact with service providers — what we term effective access. This study investigates ... -
Pre-suffrage impartiality, democratic experience and clientelism: How sequencing matters
(2023-01)It has been asserted that clientelism today is weaker in countries that were endowed with impartial public administrations prior to the extension of suffrage because the presence of bureaucratic checks undermines clientelism ...