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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 ...
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 ...
Strategies of Validation: Assessing the Varieties of Democracy Corruption Data
(2016)
Social scientists face the challenge of determining whether their data are valid, yet they lack prac- tical guidance about how to do so. Existing publications on data validation provide mostly abstract information for ...
Democracy and Corruption: A Global Time-Series Analysis with V-Dem Data
(2017)
Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, numerous scholars have found empirically that corruption decreases at high levels of democracy but actually increases at low levels. A key weaknesses of studies ...
V-Dem Comparisons and Contrasts with Other Measurement Projects
(2017)
For policymakers, activists, academics, and citizens around the world the conceptualization and measurement of democracy matters. The needs of democracy promoters and social scientists are convergent. We all need better ...
Measuring Electoral Democracy with V-Dem Data: Introducing a New Polyarchy Index
(2016)
This paper presents a new measure of electoral democracy, or "polyarchy", for a global sample of 173 countries from 1900 to the present based on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) data, enabling us to address several ...
A Quality of Government Peace? Bringing the State Back Into the Study of Inter-State Armed Conflict
(2010-09)
Domestically, democracy or democratization has not proved as successful in bringing
about preferred economic and social consequences as has “good governance” and
quality of government. Within the field of international ...
Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th Century
(2018)
The Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset (Historical V-Dem) is a new dataset containing about 260 indicators, both factual and evaluative, describing various aspects of political regimes and state institutions. The ...
Electoral Democracy and Human Development
(2015)
This study attempts to reconcile competing positions in the debate over whether democracy improves human development by showing that some aspects of democracy – but not others – affect human development. Specifically, we ...