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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 ... -
Beyond the Party’s Realm - The Consequences of Variation in Candidate Selection
(2023-11-10)In the last two decades, Western European parties have introduced various methods to select candidates for executive public office. A process that before was mainly the privilege of a narrow elite was opened to party members ... -
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 ... -
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 ...