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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 ...
The Impact of Quality of Government as Impartiality: Theory and Evidence
(2009-11)
In this paper I argue that Rothstein and Teorell’s (2008) concept of impartiality helps
to integrate four conspicuously disparate strands in the literature on consequences of
government institutions: the literatures on ...
Electoral Systems: Assessing the Cross-Sectional Time-Series Data Sources
(2009-05)
In this paper we compare and assess four freely available cross-sectional time-series
data sets in terms of their information on the ballot structure, district structure and
formula of the electoral system in use for ...