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Creating Political Legitimacy: Electoral Democracy versus Quality of Government
(2008-03)
It is often held that the establishment of electoral democracy is key to the creation of political legitimacy. This article challenges this idea and presents an alternative. A large number of empirical studies reveals that ...
What is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Political Institutions
(2005)
The last years have seen a growth in research on “good governance” and the quality
of government institutions. This development has been propelled by empirical
findings that such institutions might hold the key to ...
Minorities and Mistrust: The Cushioning Impact of Social Contacts and Institutional Fairness
(2008-08)
Previous research concludes that immigrants and minority members, as well as all residents of more diverse contexts, display less generalized trust. Such findings suggest a harsh trade-off between diversity on the one hand ...
The Quality of Government and Social Capital: A Theory of Political Institutions and Generalized Trust
(2007-03)
The purpose of this article is to present a new theory on the generation of social capital. In the discussion about the sources of social capital it has been stressed that generalized trust is built up by the citizens ...
Preventing Markets from Self-Destruction: The Quality of Government Factor
(2009-01)
Four interrelated arguments are presented to form a theory about the relation between
the logic of markets, social efficiency and the quality of government. The first is that
competitive markets with a certain set of ...