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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 ...
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 ...