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Bureaucracy, Politics and Corruption
(2009-08)
Most comparative studies on corruption are geared towards the analysis of factors dealing with the selection and the incentives of actors taking policy decisions in a state. With few exceptions, such as Rauch & Evans (2000), ...
Elections as Levers of Democracy: A Global Inquiry
(2008-08)
In this paper we purport to test the proposition that elections have a democratizing effect, drawing on cross-sectional time-series data at best covering a global sample of 193 countries from 1919 to 2004. Two versions of ...
Does Type of Authoritarianism Affect the Prospects for Democracy? Exogenous Shocks and Contingent Democratization
(2006)
In this paper we test the often asserted view that the prospects for democratization
differ among different types of authoritarian regimes. To what extent do exogenous shocks—
economic crisis, popular protest and democratic ...
Corruption as an Institution: Rethinking the Nature and Origins of the Grabbing Hand
(2007-11)
The predominant view of corruption within political science and economics today is the principal-agent model. Corruption is modeled as criminal behavior on behalf of some agents entrusted to act on the behalf of some ...
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 ...
The Impact of Quality of Government as Impartiality: Theory and Evidence
(2009-11)
In this paper I argue that Rothstein and Teorell’s (2008) concept of impartiality helps
to integrate four conspicuously disparate strands in the literature on consequences of
government institutions: the literatures on ...
Electoral Systems: Assessing the Cross-Sectional Time-Series Data Sources
(2009-05)
In this paper we compare and assess four freely available cross-sectional time-series
data sets in terms of their information on the ballot structure, district structure and
formula of the electoral system in use for ...