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The Mechanisms of Corruption: Interest vs. Cognition
(2006)
paper starts by identifying a central theoretical problem in contemporary research
about political corruption. While a lot of energy has been spent trying to figure out what
types of political and economic institutions ...
Correlates of Corruption
(2014-12)
Political Corruption and Social Trust: An Experimental Approach
(2005)
Few experimental studies have investigated important factors for people’s perceptions
of the trustworthiness of others. Building on theories that point at the importance of
trustworthy government institutions, an experiment ...
Exploring a Causal Relationship between Vertical and Horizontal Trust
(2005)
Three experiments investigating how a possible causal relationship works between
vertical trust (i.e., trust in authorities) and horizontal trust (i.e., trust in others) are
reported. In Experiment 1, 40 undergraduate ...
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 ...
Creating Political Legitimacy: Electoral Democracy versus Quality of Government
(2008-03)
It is often held that the establishment of electoral democracy is key to the creation of political legitimacy. This article challenges this idea and presents an alternative. A large number of empirical studies reveals that ...
What is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Political Institutions
(2005)
The last years have seen a growth in research on “good governance” and the quality
of government institutions. This development has been propelled by empirical
findings that such institutions might hold the key to ...