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The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report
(2021)
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 ...
Establishing Pathways to Democracy Using Domination Analysis
(2020)
How does the order in which liberalization unfolds a ect the likelihood for a successful democratic
transition? Dahl was among the rst to argue that the sequence matters for the outcome
when it comes to democratization. ...
Alienation och Arbete. Unga behovsanställdas villkor i den flexibla kapitalismen
(2020-03-04)
The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how flexible capitalism, drawing from the case of on-call employees, influences the ability to control life and work and affects relationships with other people, both inside ...
Empirical Dimensions of Electoral Democracy
(2020-09)
This paper investigates conceptual ambiguities concerning the dimensionality of democracy and what it can tell us about political development. We explore variation in components of the Electoral Democracy Index from the ...
Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000-2015 CE
(2021-03)
Since the transition to agricultural production, property rights to land have been a key institution for
economic development. Clearly defined land rights provide economic agents with increased access
to credit, secure ...
IMPACTS OF EVIDENCE ON DECISION-MAKING IN POLICE INVESTIGATION
(2021-05-19)
When conducting an investigation, police officers collect evidence from various sources (e.g.,
humans, objects, areas). The type of evidence (i.e., physical vs. personal) can affect the
investigators’ beliefs about the ...
Democracy Promotion and Electoral Quality: A Disaggregated Analysis
(2020-09)
The international community spends significant sums of money on democracy promotion and support, focusing especially on producing competitive and transparent electoral environments in the developing world. In theory, this ...
Mass Mobilization and Regime Change. Evidence From a New Measure of Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2020
(2022-01)
Mass mobilization is an important driver of political change. While some citizens organize collective action in favor of more democratic institutions, others take to the streets to support authoritarian leaders or ...
Interviewing preschoolers: Facilitators and barriers to young children's legal testimony
(2020-11-19)
Children’s testimonies are often vital during criminal investigations of alleged maltreatment. The aim of this thesis was to improve our understanding of forensic interviews with preschool-aged children (aged 3 to 6 years). ...
Which Institutions Rule? Unbundling the Democracy-Growth Nexus
(2022-02)
Over the past two decades studies of the causal impact of ‘institutions’ and ‘democracy’ on economic prosperity have occupied a prominent position in the cross-country growth litera-ture and within economics more broadly. ...