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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 ...
Economic Development and Democracy: An Electoral Connection
(2015)
This study takes a new tack on the question of modernization and democracy, focused on the outcome of theoretical interest. We argue that economic development affects the electoral component of democracy but has minimal ...
Reassessing the Democratic Peace: A Novel Test Based on the Varieties of Democracy Data
(2018)
The democratic peace is one of the most robust findings in international relations. Yet it suffers from two important limitations. First, even those who fully embrace the democratic peace have difficulty precisely identifying ...
Measuring High Level Democratic Principles using the V-Dem Data
(2015)
While the definition of extended conceptions of democracy has been widely discussed, the measurement of these constructs has not attracted similar attention. In this paper we present new measures of polyarchy, liberal ...
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 ...
The Structure of the Executive in Authoritarian and Democratic Regimes: Regime Dimensions across the Globe, 1900-2014
(2015)
This paper attempts to integrate the literatures on authoritarian regime types and democratic forms of government. Based on different modes of executive appointment and dismissal, I propose a parsimonious theory of five ...