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Corruption, Happiness, Social Trust and the Welfare State: A Causal Mechanisms Approach
(2010-04)
Does a more generous welfare state make people happier and increase their life
satisfaction? Available empirical research gives a clear and positive answer to this
question. This goes counter to many arguments that the ...
Social Trust, Quality of Government and Ethnic Diversity: An Empirical Analysis of 206 Regions of Europe
(2014-12)
What factors lead to greater levels of generalized trust in society? The research field has established four channels through which it is commonly argued trust is affected at the macro level—economic inequality, civic ...
Poor Government and Poor Children: An analysis of government efficiency and sever child deprivation in 70 low-and middle-income countries.
(2012-09)
During the past decades research on governance and quality of government (QoG) has highlighted the detrimental impact of bad governance on peoples‘ living conditions. At the same time, much thanks to remarkable efforts ...
Correlates of Corruption
(2014-12)
Why No Democracy in the Arab-Muslim World? The Importance of Temple Financing and Tax Farming
(2010-12)
The absence of a single democracy in the Arab-Muslim world has become a “striking
anomaly” for scholars of democratization. The lack of democratization in this part of
the world cannot be seen as caused religion as such ...
Ethical Codes for the Public Administration. A Comparative Survey
(2017-11)
This report is an analysis of a number of ethical codes for the national public administration. We
present four theoretically grounded reasons for why such codes have been established and in many
countries are seen as ...
Understanding the Quality of Government in China: The Cadre Administration Hypothesis
(2012-12)
China’s remarkable development poses a problem for theories that have stressed the importance of institutions producing “good governance” and minimizing corruption. As a possible solution to this problem, the following ten ...
Can Efficient Institutions Induce Cooperation Among Low Trust Agents?
(2013-04)
The importance of political institutions for economic growth and social well-being has been demonstrated in a number of studies. Societies in which agents trust that other agents will collaborate in establishing and ...