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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 ...
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 ...
Myths of Corruption Prevention: What is (not) good with a Weberian Bureaucracy?
(2011-11)
It is often stated that the public sector should be separated from politics and that an isolated bureaucracy, in this sense, is less prone to corruption. The cornerstone of such propositions is that the activities of ...
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 ...
Civil War Spain versus Swedish Harmony: The Quality of Government Factor
(2010-04)
In 1936, while Sweden gave birth to one of the most peaceful solutions to class
conflict (i.e. the Neo-Corporatist Welfare State) with the iconic signature of the
Saltsjöbaden Accord, Spain gave birth to the most violent ...
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 ...