Previous research has described both theoretically and empirically, the negative consequences of having a politicized civil service, recruited on political instead of professional merits. However, we know fairly little ...

This paper looks at gender differences in the Quality of Government institute’s regional data on governance in Europe. With point of departure in three different research perspectives on gender and corruption this study ...

We analyze the importance of legitimacy and compare how drivers of public policy attitudes evolve across the policy process consisting of the input (i.e., the processes forgoing acquisition of power and the procedures ...

This PhD dissertation examines if social scientific theories can explain historical trajectories of greenhouse gas emissions. The manuscript includes an introductory chapter and four articles that consider annual emissions ...

Western use of military violence is becoming increasingly centralised, partly through the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (or more commonly referred to as “drones” in the literature). Drone technology allows control and ...

Syftet med denna forskningsöversikt är att underlätta erfarenhetsutbytet kring kommunforskning mellan Nordens länder. Till formen är forskningsöversikten en antologi med bidrag av 56 forskare från Danmark, Finland, Island, ...

We present a new dataset comprising more than 1900 regimes in 197 polities over the time period 1789-2016. We use this dataset to describe dierent historical patterns of regime duration globally, leveraging ne-grained ...

Rapporten Utveckling av medborgardialog är en berättelse om ett utvecklingsarbete i Ale kommun i samverkan med Ales internationella partnerskapskommun Ghanzi i Botswana. I Botswana finns en gammal tradition av att fatta ...

In accordance with the Paris agreement, the signing countries have undertaken to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, implying more government intervention to steer the behaviors of different actors with climate policy ...