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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 ...
Agency Design, Favoritism and Procurement in the United States
(2019-05)
The
U.S.
federal government spend
s
huge sums buying goods and services
from
outside
of
the public sector.
Given the sums involved, strategic government purchasing can have electoral consequences.
In this ...
Marketization and the Quality of Residential Elderly Care in Sweden
(2018-11)
Against a backdrop of increased levels of marketization of welfare services in OECD countries, this article aims to shed light on the separate effects of private ownership and competition on service quality. Using residential ...
Losing gamble: Mainstream parties' failed strategy to counter anti-immigrant parties
(2011-03)
The emergence of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe has provoked very different responses from mainstream parties. Some have tried to counter the antiimmigrant parties, while others have tried to recapture lost voters ...
THE QOG EXPERT SURVEY II Report
(2015)
THE QUALITY OF GOVERNMENT EXPERT SUR-VEY II IN BRIEF
• The Quality of Government Expert Survey II (QoG Expert Survey II) focuses on the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior on countries ...
The Abandoned Trustees. Explaining Corruption in Local Government
(2016-09)
This paper engages in the debate about how different ways of organizing relations between politicians and bureaucrats affect corruption. Research has established robust correlations between the political autonomy of ...
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2008-2011: A Report
(2013-10)
The literature on the quality of government generally, and corruption more specifically, focus main-ly on the political side of the state. There are however strong reasons to believe that bureaucratic structures have ...
Procurement and Competition in Swedish Municipalities.
(2017-07)
This paper asks if low political competition is associated with manipulation of public procurement pro-cesses. Using unique Swedish municipal data from 2009 to 2015, it demonstrates that when one party dominates local ...
Is the quality of the outsourced public services contingent on the quality of bureaucracy?
(2016-07)
Outsourced public services make up about half of the total public service delivery in OECD countries
today and have increased dramatically over time. Reformers expected that outsourcing would
both cut costs and increase ...