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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 ... -
Aid by Democratic Versus Autocratic Donors: Democratization Processes and Citizens’ Perceptions in Recipient Countries
(2023-08-21)OECD countries are no longer the sole major providers of financial flows abroad. Authoritarian countries such as China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, with their distinct practices and implementation processes, are ... -
Political Trust – More Personal Than We Thought? Explaining How and When Personality Traits Affect Political Trust.
(2023-08-16)Political trust is crucial for a well-functioning society. Yet few countries enjoy the benefits of high political trust. This makes people wonder how trust in institutions is built. While trust in political institutions ... -
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 ... -
Public Attitudes Towards Environmental Taxation: The Interplay Between Values, Trust, and Quality of Government
(2023-06-16)Environmental problems are commonly understood to be rooted in collective action dilemmas where the rational course of action for individuals is to engage in polluting activities to receive short-term benefits, while the ... -
Contested Feminism: Backlash and the Radical Right
(2023-06-02)During the past decade, various societies have observed feminist mobilizations and antifeminist counter-mobilizations, the latter being partly driven by radical right parties. Even in societies marked by institutions and ... -
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 ... -
The virtuous circle of representation
(Elsevier, 2016)Theoretical and empirical research shows that political representation is a dynamic process repeatedly connecting citizens and political elites. However, less is known about how citizens alone experience the process of ... -
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 ... -
Introducing Uncertainty: Community Driven Development and Local Collective Action Capacity
(2022-12)In areas with entrenched poverty and weak state presence, community driven development (CDD) initia-tives aim to secure the provision of services such as water, waste water and electricity, while engaging the community as ... -
Danger all Along. How foreign military threats and domestic power-sharing shape autocratic state-building.
(2022-12)Standard international relations accounts hold that military buildup by neighboring states leads to increased state-building efforts by authoritarian rulers. In contrast, this study shows that only some dictators will ... -
Playing the Enemy: Information, Deception, and Dictatorial Survival
What strategies do autocrats use to maintain power? Across three papers, I examine puzzling aspects of autocratic rule. These range from personalist dictators publicizing failed conspiracies to opposition involvement in ... -
Institutional Order in Episodes of Autocratization
(V-Dem Working Paper, 2022-10)Are there patterns in the sequences of institutional change when democracies autocratize? If so, are such patterns distinct for democracies that transition to authoritarianism versus those that avert democratic breakdown? ... -
School’s out! Information Cues and Retrospective Voting in the Case of School Closures in Sweden
(2022-09)While researchprovidesevidencethatvoters’considergovernments’ past performance,littleisknownaboutwhichinformationvoterspay attentionto.Wesuggesttwocompetingtheoriesofretrospective voting:Outcome-orientedvotersonlyreac ... -
Legal Pluralism and Fragmented Sovereignty in Iraq
(2022-06)In post-con ictsettings,thestate'sauthorityhasbeenunderminedanditsinsti- tutions arestrugglingtoreestablishlegitimacy.Suchsettingscreateapowervacuum that alternativeorderscan ll.Wherestateandnon-statelegalorderscoexis ...
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