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Corruption and violations of conservation rules: A survey experiment with resource users
(2015)
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 ...
Democracy and Economic Development
(2013-02)
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 ...
Can institutions pave the way for the young? Electoral systems and age representation in parliament
(2016-01)
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 ...
Towards an Understanding of Gendered Networks and Corruption: The distinction between processes during recruitment and representation
(2011-10)
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, ...
Women’s Political Empowerment: A New Global Index, 1900-2012
(2015)
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 ...
Understanding illegality and corruption in forest management: A literature review
(2016-01)
This review synthesizes the literature studying illegality and government corruption in forest man-agement. After discussing the theoretical connections between different types of corruption and illegal forest-related ...
Women's Local Political Representation within 30 European Countries: A comparative data set on regional figures
(2013-11)
This document describes a new dataset on women’s political representation at the local level in Europe. The author collected the most recent figures on women elected at the lowest administra-tive tier in 30 countries. The ...
Quality of Government Affect Voter Turnout in the European Regions
(2013-03)
While much of the literature on voter turnout focuses on institutional and socioeconomic factors related to the “input” side of the political process, we examine the “output” side of the political process – and advance ...