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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 ...
Building Quality of Government? International Organizations and Educational Performance in Africa
(2014-11)
Although international organizations are often seen as an important transformative power on the
international arena, we know less about how and when they promote better domestic institutions.
Using data on education ...
From Åland to Ankara: European Quality of Government Index. 2013 Data, Sensitivity Analysis and Final Results
(2013-07)
This paper presents the latest version of the European Quality of Government Index (‘EQI’). The data builds on a previously published data from 2010 (Charron, Lapuente and Rothstein 2013; Charron, Dijkstra and Lapuente ...
Voter Ideology, Party Systems and Corruption Voting in European Democracies
(2014-12)
There is growing literature on an increasingly ubiquitous puzzle in many democratic countries: why do corrupt officials continue to be re-elected by voters? In this study we address this issue with a novel theory and newly ...
What Do Citizens Think About Redistribution and Aid Within the EU? Description and Highlights of a Pan-European Citizen Survey on Public Support for Cohesion Policy
(2018-02)
This paper introduces the main findings and methodology of a new large-scale pan European survey capturing citizens’ support for EUs efforts to reduce inequality between richer and poorer regions in Europe, cohesion policy. ...