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Campaigning in Poetry, Governing in Prose: Pre- and Post-Election Effects of Election Pledge Rhetoric
(2017-12-18)
In election campaigns, parties often use value-laden words such as freedom and competitiveness, to reach out to voters with their election pledges and policy proposals. While it is well known that the presence of such words ...
Gender Diversity on High Courts
(2017)
Increasing the diversity of political institutions is believed to improve the quality of political discourse and, subsequently, the quality of political outcomes. Moreover, the presence of diverse officials in positions ...
Who Should Intervene? – Distributing the Duties of Humanitarian Intervention.
(2017-05-11)
Many theorists argue that there can be a duty to intervene militarily in order to halt massive violations of basic human rights in other countries. But less is known about how this duty should be assigned to particular ...
Democracy and Corruption: A Global Time-Series Analysis with V-Dem Data
(2017)
Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, numerous scholars have found empirically that corruption decreases at high levels of democracy but actually increases at low levels. A key weaknesses of studies ...
Multiple Measurements, Elusive Agreement, and Unstable Outcomes in the Study of Regime Change
(2017)
This comprehensive analysis of regime change indicators reveals that problems of conceptualization and measurement are major reasons why current research fails to draw compelling conclusions that foster cumulative knowledge. ...
IRT models for expert-coded panel data
(2017)
Data sets quantifying phenomena of social-scientific interest often use multiple experts to code latent concepts. While it remains standard practice to report the average score across experts, experts likely vary in both ...
Compliance dynamics in transboundary governance of natural resources
(2017-10)
The extent to which resource users abide by rules is a fundamental question in the governance of conservation efforts, such as national parks, often challenged by poaching. While a large literature studies the factors ...
Autocrats and Skyscrapers: Modern White Elephants in Dictatorships
(2017)
Political leaders often have private incentives to pursue expensive and socially wasteful "white elephant" projects. Our argument highlights that weak accountability mechanisms allow autocratic leaders to more easily realize ...
The Egyptian Uprising of 2011: Tracing the Role of the Cairo-Based Political Opposition
(2017-05-16)
It is the aim of this study to understand the mobilization process leading up to and the diffusion of collective contentious behavior during the Egyptian Uprising of 2011. Using process tracing and focusing on the role of ...
Kunskapsstaden Göteborg - varför och för vem? Tre organisationers syn på kunskap och Göteborg som kunskapsstad 2000-2016
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2017)
Allt fler städer, i och utanför Sverige, kallar sig för kunskapsstäder. Men vilken sorts kunskap syftar man egentligen på? Och vad är det tänkt att en inriktning på kunskapsutveckling ska bidra med? Tidigare forskning har ...