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Does Democracy Produce Quality of Government?
(2009-01)
This paper analyzes the effects of political regimes over state capacity or the
quality of government (QoG): do democratic states perform better than authoritarian
ones? Previous studies on this puzzle point to a nonlinear ...
Sub-national Quality of Government in EU Member States: Presenting the 2021 European Quality of Government Index and its relationship with Covid-19 indicators
(2021-04)
The 2021 European Quality of Government Index (the EQI) is the largest survey ever undertaken to measure perceptions of quality of government, collecting the opinions of over 129,000 respondents in a total of 208 NUTS 1 ...
Why Bureaucracy? Political Power and the Emergence of Autonomous Bureaucracies
(2008-11)
Why some bureaucracies are autonomous regarding personnel policies? New
Political Economy approaches to public administrations tend to explain
bureaucratic autonomy as a result of the political exchange between citizens ...
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 ...
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 ...
Do You Believe Me? Public Sector Incentive Systems in Japan, Korea, Spain, and Sweden
(2008-12)
This paper presents a theoretical hypothesis for understanding the success of
performance-related incentives in the public sector, based on insights developed in the
private sector. The paper argues that incentives are ...