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No Democratic Transition Without Women’s Rights: A Global Sequence Analysis 1900-2012
(2015-09)
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 ...
Examining Gender Differences in Environmental Concern Across Four Levels of the Swedish Polity
(2013-06)
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 ...
Not to be Used During Fire: Performance-related pay for civil servants as an anticorruption tool
(2014-10)
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 2020 (Wave III): Report
(2021)
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 ...
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 ...
Sexual forms of corruption and sextortion: How to expand research in a sensitive area
(2021-12)
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 ...
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 ...