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Ethical Codes for the Public Administration. A Comparative Survey
(2017-11)
This report is an analysis of a number of ethical codes for the national public administration. We
present four theoretically grounded reasons for why such codes have been established and in many
countries are seen as ...
Understanding the Quality of Government in China: The Cadre Administration Hypothesis
(2012-12)
China’s remarkable development poses a problem for theories that have stressed the importance of institutions producing “good governance” and minimizing corruption. As a possible solution to this problem, the following ten ...
Minorities and Mistrust: The Cushioning Impact of Social Contacts and Institutional Fairness
(2008-08)
Previous research concludes that immigrants and minority members, as well as all residents of more diverse contexts, display less generalized trust. Such findings suggest a harsh trade-off between diversity on the one hand ...
Can Efficient Institutions Induce Cooperation Among Low Trust Agents?
(2013-04)
The importance of political institutions for economic growth and social well-being has been demonstrated in a number of studies. Societies in which agents trust that other agents will collaborate in establishing and ...
Mellanmänsklig tillit och statsfinansiella kriser
(SOM-institutet, 2010)
The Quality of Government and Social Capital: A Theory of Political Institutions and Generalized Trust
(2007-03)
The purpose of this article is to present a new theory on the generation of social capital. In the discussion about the sources of social capital it has been stressed that generalized trust is built up by the citizens ...
Correlates of Corruption
(2019-06)
Is Corruption Understood Differently in Different Cultures? Anthropology meets Political Science
(2013-03)
This paper aims to investigate how ideas and socio-cultural preferences of “public” versus “private” account for the presence of bribery and corruption practices. Understanding corruption in terms of the differences that ...
Quality of Government and Quality of Water
(2010-06)
According to a conservative estimation by the World Health Organization, 1.2 billion
people lack access to sufficient quantities of safe water, and 2,6 billion people are without
adequate sanitation. Consequently, 80 ...
Mass Education, State-Building and Equality: Searching for the Roots of Corruption
(2012-07)
The roots of corruption are highly contested. We argue that there is a path dependence across almost a century and a half and present five theoretical arguments for the existence of a causal mechanism between universal ...