I samhällsdebatten händer ibland att medborgare och debattörer anklagar politiker för att strunta i de fysiska miljöerna i de fattigare stadsdelarna, och prioritera utvecklandet av de rikare stadsdelarna. Den tidigare ...

The 2021 European Quality of Government Index (the EQI) is the largest survey ever undertaken to measure perceptions of quality of government, collecting the opinions of over 129,000 respondents in a total of 208 NUTS 1 ...

A series of new democracy measures have been introduced in recent years, many based on previous measures, but some offering original data. This chapter provides critical discussion of three new measures based on original ...

Millions of people have migrated to Europe during the last decades. As a result, the issue of immigrant integration in host societies has received increased attention among scholars and policymakers. The question of how ...

The Quality of Government Expert Survey (QoG Expert Survey) is a research project aimed at documenting the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior in countries around the world. This report ...

Retirement is a major life event potentially affecting domains such as cognitive functioning and well-being. The main aim of this thesis was to assess whether retirement influences cognitive functioning and how inter- ...

Gradual processes of democratization and autocratization have gained increased attention in the literature. Assessing such processes in a comparative framework remains a challenge, however, due to their under-conceptualization ...

In contemporary Western capitalist societies, the state has increasingly withdrawn from its role as welfare provider, while financial institutions, actors, products, and narratives play an increasingly important part not ...

Organisationsförändringar har beforskats sedan länge och det finns många modeller och anvisningar för framgångsrik förändring. Trots detta beräknas så många som tre fjärdedelar av alla förändringsförsök inte uppnå sina ...