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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? ...
Why Do Some Regions in Europe Have Higher Quality of Government?
(2011-01)
While most of the quantitative literature on quality of government involving European
countries has focused on national differences, sub-national variation has been
neglected, mainly due to the lack of data. This paper ...
The Wealth of Regions: Government Quality and Entrepreneurship in Europe
(2012-10)
This paper argues that government quality – operationalized as the ability of government to treat all their citizens in an impartial way – levels the ‘playing field’ for economic agents with and without connections to ...
Quality of Government in EU Regions: Spatial and Temporal Patterns
(2018-02)
A wave of recent cross-national research has pointed to the positive consequences for countries with high levels of ‘quality of government’ (QoG), broadly defined, such as corruption, impartiality, and quality of public ...
Careers, Connections and Corruption Risks in Europe
(2015-04)
Why do officials in some countries favor entrenched contractors while others assign public con-tracts more impartially? According to the research, such variation responds to differences in political institutions, economic ...
Mapping Quality of Government in the European Union: A Study of National and Sub-National Variation
(2010-12)
This study maps-out the variation in quality of government (‘QoG’ - e.g. low levels or
corruption, protection of the rule of law, government effectiveness and accountability)
for the national and regional level in the ...
No Law without a State
(2010-05)
There is a large and growing interest in the prevailing cross-country differences many
well-functioning institutions, such as judicial independence and high quality laws, and
desirable social outcomes, such as a low ...
Trust, Regulation and Redistribution
(2019-05)
For many social scientists government intervention is linked to low levels of social trust and corruption, while, on the contrary, for others government intervention is associated with high trust and low corruption. We aim ...