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Marketization and the Quality of Residential Elderly Care in Sweden
(2018-11)
Against a backdrop of increased levels of marketization of welfare services in OECD countries, this article aims to shed light on the separate effects of private ownership and competition on service quality. Using residential ...
Losing gamble: Mainstream parties' failed strategy to counter anti-immigrant parties
(2011-03)
The emergence of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe has provoked very different responses from mainstream parties. Some have tried to counter the antiimmigrant parties, while others have tried to recapture lost voters ...
Do You Believe Me? Public Sector Incentive Systems in Japan, Korea, Spain, and Sweden
(2008-12)
This paper presents a theoretical hypothesis for understanding the success of
performance-related incentives in the public sector, based on insights developed in the
private sector. The paper argues that incentives are ...
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 ...
The Abandoned Trustees. Explaining Corruption in Local Government
(2016-09)
This paper engages in the debate about how different ways of organizing relations between politicians and bureaucrats affect corruption. Research has established robust correlations between the political autonomy of ...
Conflict-resolvers or tools of electoral struggle?Swedish commissions of inquiry 1990-2016
(2020-04)
Many countries face growing challenges of democratic governance from political polarizationand the increasingly complex nature of policy problems. The question is then how can governments build consensus and confer ...
The Immigration Issue and Anti-Immigrant Party Success: Is Sweden the Odd Case Out?
(2009-12)
The handling of the immigration issue by established parties and the electoral success
of anti-immigrant parties are closely linked. Comparative research on anti-immigrant
parties argues that articulation of the immigration ...
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 ...
Procurement and Competition in Swedish Municipalities.
(2017-07)
This paper asks if low political competition is associated with manipulation of public procurement pro-cesses. Using unique Swedish municipal data from 2009 to 2015, it demonstrates that when one party dominates local ...