What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? Research has focused on socioeconomic and institutional factors, yet the assumption that political liberalization has to precede democratization has not been ...

While numerous studies find modest, consistent gender differences in environmental concern with-in the general publics of North American and European countries, such a pattern has not been studied much among elected ...

The last decades’ restructuring of public administrations has in numerous countries included the use of performance-related pay (PRP) programs. Such reforms have been said to reduce civil servants’ incentives for corrupt ...

The Quality of Government Expert Survey (QoG Expert Survey) is a research project aimed at documenting the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior in countries around the world. This report ...

Small-scale corruption in government administrations that govern natural resources is believed to have a negative impact on conservation management. Yet, while corruption is said to obstruct the implementation of conservation ...

Is democracy favorable or adverse for the environment? While some studies find democracy to increase the likelihood of achieving sustainable development, others propose that democracy rather has negative effects on the ...

Middle-aged to senior men of the ethnic majority and higher income groups are generally overrepresented in parliaments. While research on group representation has examined issues of gender, economic standing and, more ...

There is increasing attention among advocacy organizations about the urgent problem of sextortion and other ways in which sexual forms of corruption hurts vulnerable people. Yet, scholarly understandings of this challenge ...

This paper aims to proceed theoretically from the impasse of current research on the relationship between representation of elected women and national levels of corruption. A contradiction is identified in the literature, ...

The V-Dem index on women’s political empowerment provides information about women’s civil liberties, civil society participation, and political participation globally. Spanning from 1900 to 2012, three dimensions of ...