Scientific Report for the Program "The Quality of Government Institute (QoG) at University of Gothenburg".
2006-2015

The aim of the program and potential changes

A central aim of the Institute has been to create "creative synergy" and to facilitate research cooperation in the group. Another important aim has been to have a high profile in the international "good governance" research community. The Institute is currently using a number of "devices" in order to achieve those aims, such as weekly breakfast meetings, lunch seminars, organizing internal conferences and attending international ones, keeping and maintaining a world leading database and finally managing the Institute's home page (www.qog.pol.gu.se).

The basic idea of the Quality of Government Institute is to gather and connect scholars with an interest in issues related to the Quality of Government, which is defined as trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions. The Institute conducts and promotes research on the causes, consequences and nature of good governance and quality of government, i.e. how to create and maintain high quality government institutions and how the quality of such institutions influences public policy in a broader sense. We have done so by applying a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, involving several social science disciplines. The aim is to facilitate the creation of a vibrant research community, by stimulating interaction and cooperation among the scholars involved.

We also promote research by offering access to several cross-national comparative data sets on QoG and its correlates, which is one of the biggest databases in the world on this area. It draws on a large number of freely available data sources, including aggregated individual-level data. The data is described in extensive codebooks.

No deviations in terms of the aim have been done during the ongoing program.


The most important results of the program

The starting point of the program was the insight that the causes of the flaws of human welfare in some parts of the world was that the majority of the world's population lives in countries with dysfunctional public institutions. One of the first articles published by the research program by Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein and Naghmeh Nasitourisi revealed a strong, negative correlation between measures of the quality of government and a number of commonly used measures of human welfare.

The theoretical and conceptual definitions of quality of government were among the first questions that needed to be addressed. Bo Rothstein and Jan Teorell presented their theoretical and conceptual framework in an article that was published in 2008. They departed from the idea that the quality of government could be defined as the antithesis of corruption, which is commonly defined as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. One problem with this definition was found to be that it invites a relativist understanding of the issue, since notions of what counts as "abuse" and "private gain" may vary. Rothstein and Teorell instead suggested impartiality as the defining feature of high quality of government. Impartiality implies that public officials cannot take into account any other features than those stated in laws and regulations. Defining quality of government as impartiality in the use of public power has many important advantages; for the first time, this definition not only captures corruption but also a range of other problems, including nepotism, clientelism and discrimination. Furthermore, the definition provides a solution to the seeming paradox that countries that are not representative democracies, such as Singapore, may still demonstrate high quality of government. The opposite issue can also be addressed; namely, that the introduction of representative democracy does not necessarily result in higher quality in public institutions.

Another significant research contribution is the alternative approach to the nature of the corruption problem offered by Persson, Rothstein and Teorell. They criticize theoretical approach that has hitherto dominated research and policy on corruption; the principal-agent theory. This theory, they argue, is based on the idea that actors that are not supposed to exist do exist, since its point of departure is that actors will act rationally and in order to maximize their own, private gain. The problem is that there are good reasons to assume that in highly corrupt states, the executive leaders, who according to this theory are the "principals", have a lot to gain from allowing for corruption to persist. This undermines the idea of a "principled principal" who is willing to hold corrupt officials accountable. Persson, Rothstein and Teorell instead suggest that that quality of government, and especially the problems related to corruption, should be understood in line with a different theoretical approach within social sciences, namely that of the collective action dilemma; or the problem of social traps. Taking on this approach to QoG does not only change our understanding of the fundamental nature of the problem, but also of what measures should be taken to avert corruption and other similar dysfunctions in public institutions. The idea behind this theory of collective action is that people who are to decide whether or not to engage in corrupt activities base their actions on the principle of reciprocity, which means that they base their actions on their assumptions of how other people would act in the same situation.

The theory of collective action provides a basis for a very different action program to curb systemic corruption; instead of attempting to rectify the structure of incitement in an incremental fashion or try to change the norms and ethics of actors involved in corruption, the theory of collective action suggests that measures to curb corruption must be of such magnitude that they do not only affect the strategy of each individual actor, but also his or her notion of how "everyone else" would act in a similar situation.

The research program has further contributed with the most complete and publicly available database within this research field. The QoG Institute has also contributed with four notable data collections. In addition, the Institute has produced a variety of theoretical and empirical results that help explain variations between countries regarding their quality of government and the effects of institutional quality on the ability of countries to create good conditions for human welfare. The quality of government has proved to be of great importance for human welfare; if we summarize the causes of human suffering in the world, the main explanation to this suffering will most probably be that a majority of the world's population live in countries with dysfunctional public institutions.

Compared to previous research, our focus on institutional conditions has great potential for practical application. Structural factors are almost always beyond our ability to change, including the history, cultural heritage, geography and natural resources of countries. However, institutions can be altered and improved through political action. The recruitment procedure for public officials, the share of women on political posts, the structure of the educational system and the formation of the tax system are among the factors that our researchers have proved to be important in this regard.

New reserach questions that have been generated by the program

A number of new research questions have been generated during these years, among which some have turned into new research projects, which have received funding. In 2013, Bo Rothstein was awarded 2,5 million euros for an Advanced Research Grant from the European Research Council for a project titled The Performance of Democracies (PERDEM). The main objective of this project is to analyze the relation between democracies are organized and how they perform in generating human well-being, curb corruption and handle public finances. The project started in Spring 2014.

Another off shot from the QoG program is the research on gender and corruption. In 2014 Lena Wängnerud and Helena Stensöta got a research grant from Forte for the project "Making sense of gender and corruption", in which they develop new understandings of enabling and hindering factors in the development of high quality government institutions from an intersectionality perspective, where gender is central. The studies will be conducted in three different settings - Sweden, Spain, and Mexico - and cover three types of institutions or spheres of government; the electoral arena, the bureaucracy and street-level administration.

A third example is the RJ-funded project Out of Control or Over Controlled? Incentives, Audits and New Public Management, led by Carl Dahlström, which aims at understanding the effects of New Public Management (NPM) reforms on the efficiency of public service delivery, corruption and human welfare.

Programmets international embeddedness

The Quality of Government Institute and its researchers have established a broad international network, and we are well known within our research field. This is manifested through the frequent requests we receive from near and far from academics who wish to be invited as guest scholars for one or two weeks; the amount of invitations that our researchers receive from foreign universities to present our research; and through our meetings with other researchers at international conferences. In this context, we should also mention the Poznan Declaration, which was launched in 2014, an initiative aimed at mainstreaming ethics and anti-corruption throughout higher education. The declaration builds on QoG-research and provides arguments for higher education to join governments, businesses and civil society in the global fight against corruption, by supporting and enacting, within their sphere of influence, a set of core values in the areas of ethics, transparency and anti-corruption - in short, to adapt a QoG-perspective across all of their educations. The Poznan Declaration has not only helped to increase the visibility of the QoG Institute in academia and among international organizations, but is more importantly an achievement of the QoG project in terms of social impact.

Apart from the mutual exchanges mentioned above, the QoG Institute also participates in several international projects, among which the ANTICORRP is the largest. The size and administrative capacity of the QoG Institute has allowed us to coordinate this project, which is one of the largest social science projects that the EU Commission has ever financed. The project today encompasses 20 research institutes in 15 European countries, its budget almost reaching 100 million SEK. Several QoG researchers participate in the project, which will finish in February 2017. There is also an extensive international collaboration on an individual basis.

Information about research outside the research community

As an academic employed at a University, we are not only to teach and do research. We are also encouraged to take part in the broader societal debate and try to spread our research results to a wider audience outside the academia. The QoG scholars have been very active on many fronts in this respect, being frequent commentators in Swedish and international press and giving public lectures. In order to increase the visibility of the Institute even more and to communicate, an Information officer was hired in May 2011, thanks to an additional grant from Riksbanken. She reorganized the website, helped us produce print material (a QoG Annual Report among other things) and organized a well-attended practitioner's conference, which was held in May 2012.

Moreover, the Institute has taken part in the annual Book Fair in Gothenburg 2010, 2011 and 2012 and also several times at the International Science Festival, which has exposed our research to a broader audience. QoG researchers have also appeared at Almedalsveckan in Visby. Finally, there is also a newly started project within the Institute about bringing QoG to the classrooms, which aims at providing teachers at Swedish gymnasiums with information and tools how to teach about QoG related issues.

The most important publications

It is somewhat difficult to single out a few publications from the quite long list of books and articles produced since 2007. Naturally the books which have been published at well renowned publishers are worth mentioning, for example the two anthologies Elites, Institutions, and the Quality of Government. How Institutions Constrain Elites from Destructive Behavior (eds. Carl Dahlström & Lena Wängnerud) at Palgrave Macmillan, wich is coming out later this year and Good Government - The Relevance of Political Science (eds. Sören Holmberg & Bo Rothstein) published in 2012 at Edward Elgar Publishing, which neatly summarizes the main findings from several QoG scholars and Bo Rothstein's The Quality of Government. Corruption, Social Trust and Inequality in International Perspective, published at the University of Chicago Press in 2011, which is a collection of the author's most important studies in this field.

Four articles are also worth mentioning as they define the concept of QoG (Rothstein, Bo & Jan Teorell (2008). What Is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government Institutions". Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 21(2): 165-190.) and the nature of the probem (Persson, Anna, Bo Rothstein & Jan Teorell (2013). "Why Anti-Corruption Reforms Fail: Systemic Corruption as a Collective Action Problem". Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 26(3): 449-471.) and show the consequences of corruption and QoG (Holmberg, Sören & Bo Rothstein (2011). "Dying of Corruption".Health Economics. Policy and Law, 6(4): 529-547 and Holmberg, Sören, Naghmeh Nasiritousi & Bo Rothstein (2009). "Quality of Government: What You Get". Annual Review of Political Science, 13(12): 135-161).

The publication strategy of the program

The program has been strongly focused on international publications in peer reviewed journals and established international university presses. As is evident from the publication list the program has been successful in this respect, despite the fact that publishing often is a very time consuming process. Numerous articles have already been published or are accepted for publication in international peer reviewed journals and others are still in the review phase and still others are just about to be submitted, many of which has been put on the web site as QoG working papers and been subject to seminar treatment at QoG's internal conferences. It is worth pointing out that most of the QoG scholars have contributed to these publications, not just the most well established ones. As mentioned above, and in addition to article publication, there has also been our ambition to compile a broad variety of our most important pieces of research in edited volumes. The QoG Working Paper series has finally been a platform to publish next to finished articles, which has the advantage of not having to wait for the often long peer review processes. Most working papers have been discussed at our internal conferences and/or presented at international ones.

Publications

Publikationslista, samt länkar till egna webbsidor.

Publikationer från QoG-institutet (2007-januari 2015)


Artiklar publicerade i vetenskapliga tidskrifter med kollegial granskning

2015 (t.o.m. januari).

Charron, Nicholas (2015). “Do corruption measures have a perception problem? Assessing the relationship between experiences and perceptions of corruption among citizens and experts”. European Political Science Review. Online  publication Jan. 20,  2015.

Persson, Anna & Bo Rothstein (2015)". Comparative Politics, 47(2).

Povitkina, Marina, Sverker C. Jagers, Martin Sjöstedt & Aksel Sundström (2015). “Democracy, Development and the Marine Environment - A Global Time-Series Investigation”. Ocean & Coastal Management, 105: 25-34.

Rothstein, Bo (2015). "The Chinese Paradox of High Growth and Low Quality of Government: The Cadre Organization Meets Max Weber". Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions. Online publication Dec 4, 2014.

Uslaner, Eric M. & Bo Rothstein (2015). “The Historical Roots of Corruption: State Building, Economic Inequality, and Mass Education”. Comparative Politics (antagen för publ.).

Rothstein, Bo & Jan Teorell (2105). "Getting to Sweden, Part II: Breaking with Corruption in the 19th Century”. Scandinavian Political Studies (antagen för publ.).

Teorell, Jan & Bo Rothstein (2015). "Getting to Sweden, Part I: War and Malfeasance, 1720-1850”. Scandinavian Political Studies (antagen för publ.).

2014

Bauhr, Monika &  Marcia Grimes (2014). "Indignation or Resignation: The Implications of Transparency for Societal Accountability". Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 27(2): 291–320.

Bågenholm, Andreas & Nicholas Charron (2014). “Do Politics in Europe Benefit from Politicising Corruption?”. West European Politics, 37(5): 903-931.

Charron, Nicholas (2014). “Diverging Cohesion? Globalization, State Capacity and Regional Inequalities Within and Across European Countries”. European Urban and Regional Studies (published online 29 December 2013).

Charron, Nicholas, Lewis Dijkstra & Victor Lapuente (2014). ”Mapping the Regional Divide in Europe: A Measure for Assessing Quality of Government in 206 European Regions” . Social Indicators Research (published online July 2014).

Charron, Nicholas, Lewis Dijkstra & Victor Lapuente (2014). "Regional Governance Matters: Quality of Government within European Union Member States". Regional Studies, 48(1): 68-90.

Dahlberg, Stefan, Jonas Linde & Sören Holmberg (2014). "Democratic Discontent in Old and New Democracies: Assessing the Importance of Democratic Input and Governmental Output". Political Studies (published online 28 October 2014).

de Fine Licht, Jenny (2014). “Transparency Actually: How Transparency Affects Public Perceptions of Political Decision-making”. European Political Science Review, 6(2): 309-330.

de Fine Licht, Jenny (2014). “Policy Area as a Potential Moderator of Transparency Effects: an Experiment”. Public Administration Review, 74(3): 361-371.

Ezrow, Lawrence & Georgios Xezonakis (2014). "Satisfaction with Democracy and Voter Turnout: A Temporal Perspective". Party Politics (published online 9 September 2014).

Kokkonen, Andrej & Anders Sundell (2014): "Delivering Stability: Primogeniture and Autocratic Survival in European Monarchies 1000-1800". American Political Science Review, 108(2): 438-453.

Lapuente, Victor & Bo Rothstein (2014). "Civil War Spain versus Swedish Harmony: The Quality of Government Factor". Comparative Political Studies, 47(10): 1416-1441.

Nistotskaya, Marina, Nicholas Charron & Victor Lapuente  (2014). "The wealth of regions: quality of government and SMEs in 172 European regions". Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. Advance online publication, doi:10.1068/c13224r.

Povitkina, Marina, Sverker C. Jagers, Martin Sjöstedt & Aksel Sundström (2015). “Democracy, Development and the Marine Environment - A global Time-series Investigation”. Ocean & Coastal Management, 105: 25-34.

Rothstein, Bo (2014). "What is the Opposite of Corruption?". Third World Quarterly, 35(5): 737-757.

Rothstein, Bo & Davide Torsello (2014). "Bribery in Pre-industrial Societies: Understanding the Universalism-Particularism Puzzle". Journal of Anthropological Research, 70(2): 263-282.

Sjöstedt, Martin & Aksel Sundström (2014). "Coping with Illegal Fishing: An Institutional Account of Success and Failure in Namibia and South Africa". Biological Conservation (forthcoming).

Stensöta, Helena, Lena Wängnerud & Richard Svensson (2014). "Gender and Corruption. The Mediating Power of Institutional Logics". Governance (published online 30 September 2014).

Stockemer, Daniel  &Aksel Sundström (2014). "Modernization Theory: How to Measure and Operationalize it when Gauging Variation in Women's Representation?" Social Indicators Research (published online 12 december 2014).

Sundell, Anders (2014), "Are Formal Civil Service Examinations the Most Meritocratic Way to Recruit Civil Servants? Not in All Countries" Public Administration, 92(2): 440-457.

Sundell, Anders (2014): "Understanding Informal Payments in the Public Sector: Theory and Evidence from Nineteenth-century Sweden" Scandinavian Political Studies, 37(2): 95-122.

Sundström, Aksel & Lena Wängnerud (2014). “Corruption as an Obstacle to Women’s Political Representation: Evidence from Local Councils in 18 European Countries”. Party Politics (published online 4 September 2014).


2013

Bauhr, Monika & Marcia Grimes (2013). "Indignation or Resignation: The Implications of Transparency for Societal Accountability". Governance (Published online 17 March 2013).

Bauhr Monika, Nicholas Charron & Naghmeh Nasiritousi (2013). "Does Corruption Cause Aid Fatigue? Public Opinion and the Aid-Corruption Paradox". International Studies Quarterly 57(3): 568–579.

Bågenholm, Andreas (2013). “The Electoral Fate and Policy Impact of ‘Anti-Corruption Parties’ in Central and Eastern Europe”, Human Affairs, 23: 174–195.

Bågenholm, Andreas (2013). "Throwing the Rascals Out? The Electoral Effects of Corruption Allegations and Corruption Scandalsin Europe 1981–2011". Crime Law Soc Change, 60(5): 595-609.

Bågenholm, Andreas, Kevin Deegan-Krause & Liam Weeks (2013). “Political Data in 2012”, European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, 52(1): 1-19.

Charron, Nicholas (2013). “Impartiality, Friendship-Networks and Voting Behavior: Evidence from Voting Patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest”. Social Networks, 35(3): 484–497.

Charron, Nicholas and Victor Lapuente (2013). ”Why do Some Regions in Europe Have Higher Quality of Government?”. Journal of Politics, 75(3): 567-582.

Cornell, Agnes (2013). "Why Bureaucratic Stability Matters for the Implementation of Democratic Governance Programs". Governance (Published online 22 April 2013).

Dahlberg, Stefan & Sören Holmberg (2013). "Democracy and Bureaucracy: How their Quality Matters for Popular Satisfaction". West European Politics (Published online 16 October 2013).

Dahlström, Carl &  Peter Esaiasson (2013). “The Immigrant Issue and Anti-Immigrant Party Success in Sweden 1970-2006. A Deviant Case Analysis”. Party Politics, 19(2): 343-364.

Dahlström, Carl & Birgitta Niklasson (2013). “The Politics of Politicization in Sweden”. Public Administration, 91(4): 891–907.
Dahlström, Carl, Johannes Lindvall & Bo Rothstein (2013). “Corruption, Bureaucratic Failure, and Social Policy Priorities”. Political Studies, 61(3): 523-242.

de Fine Licht, Jenny (2013). “Transparency Actually: How Transparency Affects Public Perceptions of Political Decision-making”. European Political Science Review (published online 19 August 2013).

Halleröd, Björn, Bo Rothstein, Adel Daoud & Shailen Nandy (2013). Bad Governance and Poor Children: "A Comparative Analysis of Government Efficiency and Severe Child Deprivation in 68 Low- and Middle-income Countries". World Development, 48: 19–31.

Harring, Niklas & Jagers, Sverker (2013). “Should We Trust in Values? Explaining Public Support for Pro-Environmental Taxes”. Sustainability, 5(1): 210-227.

Harring, Niklas (2014). "Corruption, Inequalities and the Perceived Effectiveness of Economic Pro-environmental Policy Instruments: A European Cross-national Study." Environmental Science & Policy, 39: 119-128.

Jagers, Sverker & Mikael Sevä (2013). “Inspecting Environmental Management from Within: The Role of Street-level Bureaucrats in Environmental Policy Implementation”. Journal of Environmental Management, 128(15): 1060–1070.

Konstantinidis, Iannis & Georgios Xezonakis (2013). "Sources of Tolerance tTowards Corrupted Politicians in Greece: the Role of Trade Offs and Individual Benefits". Crime, Law and Social Change, 60(5): 549-563.

Lindberg, Staffan I (2013). “Mapping Accountability: Core Concept and Subtypes”. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 79(2): 202 - 226.

Persson, Anna, Bo Rothstein & Jan Teorell (2013). "Why Anti-Corruption Reforms Fail: Systemic Corruption as a Collective Action Problem". Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 26(3): 449–471.

Rothstein, Bo (2013). "Corruption and Social Trust: Why the Fish Rots from the Head Down". Social Research, 80(4): 1009-1032.

Rothstein, Bo & Rasmus Broms (2013). "Governing Religion: the Long-term Effects of Sacred Financing". Journal of Institutional Economics, 9(4): 469-490.

Sjöstedt, Martin (2013). “Aid Effectiveness And The Paris Declaration: A Mismatch Between Ownership And Results-Based Management?”. Public Administration and Development, 33(2): 143–155.

Sjöstedt, Martin & Aksel Sundström (2013). "Overfishing in Southern Africa: A Comparative Account of Regime Effectiveness and National Capacities". Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 15(5): 415–431.

Sjöstedt, Martin & Sverker C. Jagers (2013). "Democracy and the Environment Revisited: The Case of African Fisheries". Marine Policy, 43: 143–148.

Stockemer, Daniel & Aksel Sundström (2013). "Corruption and Citizens' Satisfaction with Democracy in Europe: What is the Empirical Linkage?" Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (ZfVP) / Comparative Governance and Politics, 7(1): 137-157.

Sundström, Aksel (2013). "Corruption in the Commons: Why Bribery Hampers Enforcement of Environmental Regulations in South African Fisheries" International Journal of the Commons, 7(2): 454-472.

2012

Anthonsen, Mette, Åsa Löfgren, Klas Nilsson & Joakim Westerlund  (2012). "Effects of Rent Dependency on Quality of Government". Economics of Governance, 13(2): 145-168.

Bauhr, Monika & Naghmeh Nasiritousi (2012). "How Do International Organizations Promote Quality of Government? Contestation, Integration, and the Limits of IO Power". International Studies Review, 14(4): 541-566.

Bauhr, Monika & Naghmeh Nasiritousi (2012). "Resisting Transparency: Corruption, Legitimacy, and the Quality of Global Environmental Policies". Global Environmental Politics, 12(4): 9-29.

Charron, Nicholas, Carl Dahlström & Victor Lapuente (2012). "No Law Without a State". Journal of Comparative Economics, 40(2): 176–193.

Cornell, Agnes (2012). "Does Regime Type Matter for the Impact of Democracy Aid on Democracy?". Democratization, 20(4): 642-667.

Dahlström, Carl & Anders Sundell (2012). "A Losing Gamble: How Mainstream Parties Facilitate Anti-Immigrant Party Success". Electoral Studies, 31(2): 353–363.

Dahlström, Carl, Johannes Lindvall & Bo Rothstein (2012). "Corruption, Bureaucratic Failure and Social Policy Priorities". Political Studies, 61(3): 23–542.

Dahlström, Carl, Victor Lapuente & Jan Teorell (2012)."The Merit of Meritocratization: Politics, Bureaucracy, and the Institutional Deterrents of Corruption". Political Research Quarterly, 65(3): 658-670.

Grimes, Marcia (2012). "The Contingencies of Societal Accountability: Examining the Link Between Civil Society and Good Government". Studies in Comparative International Development, 48(4): 380-402.

Harring, Niklas (2012). "Understanding the Effects of Corruption and Political Trust on Willingness to Make Economic Sacrifices for Environmental Protection in a Cross-National Perspective". Social Science Quarterly, 94(3): 660–671.

Linde, Jonas & Gissur Ó Erlingsson (2012). "The Eroding Effect of Corruption on System Support in Sweden". Governance, 26(4): 585–603.

Persson, Anna & Martin Sjöstedt (2012). "Responsive and Responsible Leaders: A Matter of Political Will?". Perspectives on Politics, 10(3): 617-632.

Persson, Anna, Bo Rothstein & Jan Teorell (2012). "Why Anticorruption Reforms Fail—Systemic Corruption as a Collective Action Problem". Governance, 26(3): 449–471.

Sjöstedt, Martin (2012). "Ecosystem Services and Poverty Reduction: How Do Development Practitioners Conceptualize the Linkages?". European Journal of Development Research, 24(5):777–787.

Sjöstedt, Martin (2012). "Horizontal and Vertical Resource Dilemmas in Natural Resource Management: the Case of African Fisheries". Fish and Fisheries, 14(4): 616–624.

Sundström, Aksel (2012). "Corruption and Regulatory Compliance: Experimental Findings from South African Small-scale Fisheries". Marine Policy, 36(6):1255-1264.

2011

Bauhr, Monika & Naghmeh Nasiritousi (2011). "Resisting Transparency. Corruption, Legitimacy and the Quality of Global Environmental Policies". Global Environmental Politics, 12(4): 9-29.

Charron, Nicholas & Victor Lapuente (2011). "Which Dictators Produce Quality of Government?". Studies in Comparative International Development, 46(4): 397-423.

Charron, Nicholas (2011). "Exploring the Impact of Foreign Aid on Corruption - Has the 'Anti-Corruption' Movement been Effective?". The Developing Economies, 49(1): 66-88.

Charron, Nicholas (2011). "Party Systems, Electoral Systems and Constraints on Corruption". Electoral Studies, 30(4): 595-606.

Dahlström, Carl & Peter Esaiasson (2011). “The Immigrant Issue and Anti-Immigrant Party Success in Sweden 1970-2006. A Deviant Case Analysis”. Party Politics (Published online before print, June 10, 2011)

Dahlström, Carl (2011). "Who Takes the Hit? Ministerial Advisers and the Distribution of Welfare State Cuts”. Journal of European Public Policy, 18(2): 294-310.

de Fine Licht, Jenny (2011). "Do We Really Want to Know? The Potentially Negative Effect of Transparency in Decision-making on Perceived Legitimacy". Scandinavian Political Studies, 34(3): 183-201.

Engster, Daniel & Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta (2011). "Do Family Policies Matter for Children's Well being?". Social Politics, 18(1): 82-124.

Holmberg, Sören & Bo Rothstein (2011). "Dying of Corruption".Health Economics. Policy and Law, 6(4): 529-547.

Pierre, Jon (2011). “Stealth Economy?: Economic Theory and the Politics of Administrative Reform”., Administration and Society, 43:672-92.

Rothstein, Bo (2011). "Can Markets be Expected to Prevent Themselves from Self-destruction?" Regulation & Governance, 5(4): 387-404.

Rothstein, Bo, Marcus Samanni & Jan Teorell (2011). "Explaining the Welfare State: Power Resources vs. Quality of Government". European Political Science Review, 4(1): 1-28.

Sjöstedt, Martin (2011). "The Impact of Secure Land Tenure on Water Access Levels in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Botswana and Zambia". Habitat International, 35(1): 133–140.

Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena (2011). "Political Influence on Street-Level Bureaucratic Outcome: Testing the Interaction between Bureaucratic Ideology and Local Community Political Orientation". Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (Published online 30 October 2011).

Weghorst, Keith & Staffan I. Lindberg (2011). "Effective Opposition Strategies: Collective Goods or Clientelism?". Democratization, 18(5): 1193-1214.

2010

Charron, Nicholas & Victor Lapuente (2010). "Does Democracy Produce Quality of Government?" European Journal of Political Research, 49(4): 443-470.

Charron, Nicholas (2010). "The Correlates of Corruption in India: Analysis and Evidence from the States". Asian Journal of Political Science, 18(2): 177-194.

Dahlström, Carl & Victor Lapuente (2010). "Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Performance-Related Pay in the Public Sector". Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 20(3): 577-600.

Grimes, Marcia & Lena Wängnerud (2010). "Curbing Corruption through Social Welfare Reform?". The American Review of Public Administration, 40(6): 671-690.

Teorell, Jan & Catharina Lindstedt (2010). “Electoral Systems: Assessing the Cross-Sectional Time-Series Data Sources”. Political Research Quarterly (Published online November 2010).

Kumlin, Staffan & Bo Rothstein (2010). "Questioning the New Liberal Dilemma: Immigrants, Social Trust and Institutional Fairness". Comparative Politics, 43(1): 63-80(18).

Kumlin, Staffan (2010). "Essens, konvergens och komparativ forskning om välfärdsopinion". Tidskrift for samfunnsforskning, 51(3): 465-471.

Lapuente, Victor & José Fernández-Albertos (2010). “Doomed to disagree? Party–voter discipline and policy gridlock under divided government.” Party Politics 1(22).

Lapuente, Victor (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities. Bureaucratization in Mayor-Council and Council-Manager Municipalities”. Local Government Studies, 36(6): 739-757.

Lindstedt, Catharina & Daniel Naurin (2010). "Transparency is not Enough: Making Transparency Effective in Reducing Corruption". International Political Science Review, 31(3): 301-322.

Naurin, Daniel & Catharina Lindstedt (2010). “Transparency Against Corruption”. International Political Science Review, 31(3): 1-22.

Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena (2010). "The Conditions of Care: Reframing the Debate about Public Sector Ethic". Public Administration Review, 70(2): 295-303.


2009

Anthonsen Mette & Johannes Lindvall (2009). "Party Competition and the Resilience of Corporatism". Government and Opposition, 44(2): 167-187.

Charron, Nicholas (2009). "Government Quality and Vertical Power Sharing in Fractionalized States". Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 39(4): 1-21.

Charron, Nicholas (2009). "The Impact of Socio-Political Integration and Press Freedom on Corruption". Journal of Development Studies, 45(9): 1-22.

Charron, Nicholas  (2009). “Electoral Formulas and Constraints on Corruption: Variation within Plurality-Majority Systems” Revise and Re-submit at Electoral Studies.

Cornell, Agnes (2009). ”Demokratibistånd, politiska regimer och demokratisk utveckling. Politica, 41 (3): 331-348.

Dahlström, Carl (2009). "The Bureaucratic Politics of Welfare State Crisis: Sweden in the 1990s". Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 22(2): 217-238.

Dahlström, Carl & Victor Lapuente (2009). “Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Performance-Related Pay in the Public Sector”. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Advance Access, published August 18.

Eek, Daniel & Bo Rothstein (2009). "Political Corruption and Social Trust: An Experimental Approach". Rationality and Society, 21(1): 81-112.

Frykman, Jonas, Bo Rothstein, Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta & Isabell Schierenbeck (2009). "Sense of Community. Trust, Hope and Worries in the Welfare State". Ethnologica Europaea, 39(1).

Hammar, Henrik, Sverker C. Jagers & Katarina Nordblom (2009). "Perceived Tax Evasion and the Importance of Trust". The Journal of Socio-Economics, 38(2): 238-245.

Holmberg, Sören, Naghmeh Nasiritousi & Bo Rothstein (2009). "Quality of Government: What You Get". Annual Review of Political Science, 13(12): 135-161.

Kumlin, Staffan (2009). "Blaming Europe: Exploring the Variable Impact of National Public Service Dissatisfaction on EU Trust". Journal of European Social Policy, 19(5): 408-20.

Lapuente, Victor & Marina Nistotskaya (2009). “To The Short-Sighted Victor Belong The Spoils: Politics and Merit Adoption in Russia.” Governance, an International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. July, 22(3): 431-458.

Lapuente, Victor (2009). “A Political Economy Approach to Bureaucracies”, Journal of Economic History, Summary of Doctoral Dissertations, 69(2): 533-568.

Pierre, Jon (2009). “Reinventing Governance, Reinventing Democracy?”. Policy and Politics, 37: 591-609.

Rothstein, Bo & Dietlind Stolle (2009). "The State and Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust". Comparative Politics, 40(4): 441-467.

Rothstein, Bo (2009). "Creating Political Legitimacy: Electoral Democracy Versus Quality of Government". American Behavioral Scientist, 53(3): 311-330.

Rothstein, Bo & Daniel Eek (2009). “Political Corruption and Social Trust: An Experimental Approach”, Rationality and Society.

Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena (2009). ”Politisk administration?” Nr 4, Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv.

Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena,Jonas Frykman, Bo Rothstein et al. (2009). ”Sense of Community. Trust, Hope and Worries in the Welfare State”. Ethnologica Europaea, 39(1) (samförfattad).

Wängnerud, Lena (2009). "Women in Parliaments: Descriptive and Substantive Representation". Annual Review of Political Science, 12(1): 51-69.

2008

Grimes, Marcia (2008). ”Consent, Political Trust and Compliance: Rejoinder to Kaina’s Remarks on ‘Organizing consent’”. European Journal of Political Research. 47(4): 522-535.

Grimes, Marcia (2008). ”The Civic Benefits of Imperfect Deliberation.” Journal of Public Deliberation, 4(1).

Hammar, Henrik, Sverker C. Jagers & Katarina Nordblom (2008). ”What Explains Attitudes towards Tax Levels?”. Fiscal Studies, 29(4): 523-543.

Jagers, Sverker C. & Göran Duus-Otterström (2008). "Dual Climate Change Responsibility: on Moral Divergence between Mitigation and Adaption". Environmental Politics, Perspective on Justice, Democracy and Global Climate Change, 17(4): 576-591.

Jagers, Sverker C. & Martin Sjöstedt (2008). ”Fisheries in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Study of Property Rights Institutions and Sustainable Development”. Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 110(1): 77-82.

Lapuente, Victor & Remo Fernández-Carro (2008). "Political Regimes, Bureaucracy and Scientific Productivity". Politics & Policy, 36(6): 1006-1043.

Linde, Jonas (2008). ”Den ’goda’ demokratin? En kartläggning av demokratins kvalitet i de postkommunistiska EU-medlemsstaterna”. Nordisk Østforum, 22(1): 31-53. 

Oscarsson, Henrik, Elin Naurin & Nicklas Håkansson (2008). ”Att hålla ord: partiers löftesgivande och löftesuppfyllande”. Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, 110(1): 114-118.

Rothstein, Bo & Jan Teorell (2008). "What Is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government Institutions". Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 21(2): 165-190.

Rothstein, Bo & Dietlind Stolle (2008). “The State and Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust”. Comparative Politics, 40(4).

Rothstein, Bo and Jan Teorell (2008). “Impartiality as a Basic Norm for the Quality of Government: A Reply to Francisco Longo and Graham Wilson”. Governance, 21(2): 201-204.

Schierenbeck, Isabell & Ulrika Möller (2008). ”The Road to Democracy: Exploring the Impact of Leadership Guidance”. Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, 2008/1.

Wängnerud, Lena & Mari Teigen (2008). “Tracing Gender Equality Cultures. Elite Perceptions of Gender Equality in Norway and Sweden”. Politics & Gender, 4(4).

2007

Hadenius, Axel and Jan Teorell (2007). “Pathways from Authoritarianism”. Journal of Democracy, 18(1): 143-156.

Naurin, Daniel (2007). “Backstage Behaviour? Lobbyists in Public and Private Settings in Sweden and the European Union”. Comparative Politics, 39(2).

Rothstein, Bo & Anders Lindbom (2007).- “La Résiliance du Modèle Suédois de Welfare dans l”Èconomie Mondialisèe.” Revue International De Politique Comparée, 2007.

Böcker

Dahlström, Carl & Lena Wängnerud (red.) (2015). Elites, Institutions, and the Quality of Government. How Institutions Constrain Elites from Destructive Behavior. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (under utgivning).

Rothstein, Bo (2015).Political Corruption – A Research Collection. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (under utgivning).

Gustavsson, Maria (2014). Auditing Good Government in Africa: Public Sector Reform, Professional Norms and the Development Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan.

Charron, Nicholas, Victor Lapuente &  Bo Rothstein (2013). Quality of Government and Corruption from a European Perspective. A Comparative Study of Good Government in EU Regions. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Holmberg, Sören & Bo Rothstein (red.) (2012). Good Government - The Relevance of Political Science. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Rothstein, Bo (2011). The Quality of Government. Corruption, Social Trust and Inequality in International Perspective. University of Chicago Press.

Dahlström, Carl, B. Guy Peters & Jon Pierre (red.) (2011). Steering from the Center. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Rothstein, Bo (red.). (2010, 2014). Politik som organisation. Förvaltningspolitikens grundproblem. 4:e och 5:e utgåvorna.” Stockholm: SNS Förlag och Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Teorell, Jan (2010). Determinants of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change in the World, 1972-2006. Cambridge University Press.

Rothstein Bo & Johannes Lindvall (2010). Vägar till välstånd. Om sambandet mellan demokrati och marknadsekonomi. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.


Bokkapitel

2015

Rothstein, Bo & Jan Teorrell (2015). "Causes of Corruption", in Paul M. Heywood (red.), Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption. Routledge.

Dahlström, Carl (2015). "Bureaucracy and Corruption", in Paul M. Heywood (red.), Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption. Routledge.

Wängnerud, Lena (2015). "Gender and corruption", in Paul M. Heywood (red.), Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption. Routledge.

Rothstein, Bo (2015). “Human Well-Being and the Unsung Relevance of Political Science”, in B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre & Gerry Stoker (red.), The Relevance of Political Science. New York: Palgrave.


Följande kapitel är under publicering i Carl Dahlström & Lena Wängnerud (red.) (2015). Elites, Institutions, and the Quality of Government. How institutions constrain elites from destructive behavior. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Andreas Bågenholm & Nicholas Charron (2015). “Anti-Corruption Parties and Good Government”.

Carl Dahlström & Victor Lapuente (2015). “Democratic and professional accountability”.

Michelle D’Arcy (2015). “Rulers and their Elite Rivals: How democratization has increased incentives for corruption in sub-Saharan Africa”.

Agnes Cornell & Marcia Grimes (2015). ” Political Control of Bureaucracies as an Incentive for Party Behavior”.

Sören Holmberg & Bo Rothstein (2015). “Good Societies Need Good Leaders on a Leash”.

Anna Persson & Martin Sjöstedt (2015). “The Political and Historical Origins of Good Government”.

Helena Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud & Mattias Agerberg (2015). ”Why women in encompassing welfare states punish corrupt political parties”.

Anders Sundell (2015). “Political Order or Self-government - which is More Conducive to Quality of Government”.

Georgios Xezonakis, Spyros Kosmidis & Stefan Dahlberg (2015). Can Electors Combat Corruption?


2014

Nistotskaya, Marina (2014). “Russia”. In Chandlers J.A. (red.), Comparative Public Administration. 2nd edition. London: Routledge.  141-173.

2013

Bauhr, Monika. (2013). ”Privat och offentlig korruption i Sverige”, i Bergström, A. et al (red.), Vägskäl. Göteborg: SOM institutet, Göteborgs universitet.

Bauhr Monika (2013).”The Legacy of Honesty:  Understanding Swedish Perceptions of Corruption”. I Dahlberg,

Stefan, Henrik Oscarsson & Lena Wängnerud  (red.), Stepping Stones: Research on Political Representation, Voting Behavior och Quality of Government. Göteborg: Göteborg Studies in Politics.

Gustavson, Maria. & Lars Karlsson (2013). ”Revision”, i Johansson, Vicki & Lena Lindgren (eds)., Uppdrag offentlig granskning. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Gustavson, Maria. & Bo Rothstein, (2013). ”Can Auditing Generate Social Trust? The Organization of Auditing and the Quality of Government””, in Kristensson-Uggla, B. et al. (red.), Trust and Organizations. Confidence Across Borders. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Holmberg, Sören. (2013). “Svenska folket betygsätter offentliga myndigheter”, i Lennart Weibull, Henrik Oscarsson & Annika Bergström (red.), Vägskäl. Göteborg: SOM institutet. 

2012

Bauhr, Monika and Mathias Färdigh (2012). ”Korruption i Sverige 2011. Förekomst och acceptans”, i Lennart Weibull, Henrik Oscarsson & Annika Bergström (red.), I framtidens skugga. Göteborg: SOM institutet, Göteborgs universitet.

Dahlström, Carl (2012). "Politics and Administration", in Peters, B. Guy & Jon Pierre (red.), The Sage Handbook of Public Administration (second edition). London: Sage.
Gustavson, Maria & Bo Rothstein (2012). "Tillit till makten att granska", in Reuter, Marta, Filip Wijkström &

Bengt Kristensson Uggla (red.), Vem i hela världen kan man lita på? - Förtroende i teori och praktik. Studentlitteratur och PWC i Sverige AB.

Niklasson, Birgitta (2012). ”Sweden”, in Sandra van Thiel, Koen Verhoest, Geert Bouckaert & Per Laegreid (red.), Government Agencies: Practices and Lessons from 30 Countries. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Rothstein, Bo (2012). "Good Governance", in David Levi-Faur (red.), Oxford Handbook of Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


Kapitlen nedan har publicerats i Holmberg, Sören & Bo Rothstein (red.) (2012). Good Government. The Relevance of Political Science. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Good Government and the Relevance of Political Science, by Sören Holmberg and Bo Rothstein

Defining and Measuring Quality of Government, by Bo Rothstein and Jan Teorell

Public Administration Around the World, by Carl Dahlström, Victor Lapuente and Jan Teorell

Need or Greed Corruption?, by Monica Bauhr

Impartiality and the Need for a Public Ethics of Care, by Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta

In Democracy We Trust, but How Much?, by Nicholas Charron and Victor Lapuente

Press Freedom and Corruption, by Mathias Färdigh, Emma Andersson and Henrik Oscarsson

Weberian Bureaucracy and Corruption Prevention, by Carl Dahlström and Victor Lapuente

International Organizations and Quality of Government, by Monika Bauhr and Naghmeh Nasiritousi

To Eat of Not to Eat in Public Office, by Anna Persson and Martin Sjöstedt

Legislators and Variation in Quality of Government, by Staffan I. Lindberg

Why Women Are Less Corrupt than Men, by Lena Wängnerud

Rethinking the Nature of the Grabbing Hand, by Anna Persson, Bo Rothstein and Jan Teorell

Part of the Solution, by Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein and Naghmeh Nasiritousi

Access to Safe Water, by Sören Holmberg and Bo Rothstein

Happiness, by Marcus Samanni and Sören Holmberg

2011

Bauhr, Monika and Henrik Oscarsson (2011). ”Svenska folkets syn på korruption”, i Sören Holmberg, Lennart

Weibull & Henrik Oscarsson (red.), Lycksalighetens ö. Göteborg: SOM institutet, Göteborgs universitet.

Broms, Rasmus & Bo Rothstein (2011). “Social Capital and Democratization”, in Jeffrey Haynes (red.), Routledge Handbook of Democratization. London: Routledge.

Dahlström, Carl, B. Guy Peters & Jon Pierre (red.) (2011). “Steering from the Center: Central Government Offices and their Roles in Governing”, in Dahlström, Carl, B. Guy Peters & Jon Pierre (red.), Steering from the Center. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

Dahlström, Carl & Jon Pierre (2011). “Steering the Swedish State. Politicization as a Coordinating Strategy”, in Dahlström, Carl, B. Guy Peters & Jon Pierre (red.), Steering from the Center. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Dahlström, Carl & Victor Lapuente (2011). “Has NPM a Trust Problem? Public Sector Incentive Systems in Japan, Korea, Spain, and Sweden”, in Eymeri-Douzans, Jean-Michel & Jon Pierre (red.), Administrative Reforms and Democratic Governance. London: Routledge.

Dahlström, Carl (2011). “Politicization of Civil Service”, in Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, &  Leonardo Morlino (red.), Encyclopedia of Political Science. London: Sage.

Kumlin, Staffan (2011). “Dissatisfied Democrats, Policy Feedback, and European Welfare States, 1976-2001”, in Marc Hooghe & Sonja Zmerli (red.), Political Trust: Why Context matters. Causes and Consequences of a Relational Concept. Colchester, UK: ECPR Press.

Lapuente, Victor (2011). “Principal-Agent Theory”, in Leonardo Morlino, Bertrand Badie, & Dirk Birg-Schollosse (red.), IPSA Encyclopaedia of Political Science, London, Sage Publications.

Lindberg, Staffan I. &  Sara Meerow (2011). “Persistent Authoritarianism and the Future of Democracy in Africa”, in Brown, Nathan (red.), Democratization: Doubt, Dictatorship, Diffusion, and Development. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Pierre, Jon & Bo Rothstein (2011). “Reinventing Weber. The Role of Institutions in Creating Social Trust”, in Per Lagreid & Tom Christensen (red.), The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management. Burlington. Ashgate.

Rothstein, Bo (2011). “The Quality of Government. Corruption, Social Trust and Inequality in International Perspective”, University of Chicago Press.

Rothstein, Bo (2011). “Institutional Change”, in Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser and Leonardo Morlino (red.), International Encyclopedia of Political Science. London. Sage publications.

Rothstein, Bo (2011). “Social Democracy”, in  Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser & Leonardo Morlino (red.), International Encyclopedia of Political Science. London. Sage publications.

Rothstein, Bo (2011). “Universalism”, in George T Kurian, James E Alt, Simone Chambers, Geoffrey Garrett,

Margaret Levi & Paula D Mcclain (red.), The Encyclopedia of Political Science. CQ Press. New York.

2010

Linde, Jonas (2010). ”Ambivalenta demokrater”, i Ekman, Joakim & Jonas Linde, (red.), Protest, populism och politikens förändrade villkor. Malmö: Liber.
Ohr, Dieter & Henrik Oscarsson (2010). “Leader Traits, Leader Image and Vote Choice” In Aarts, Cees, André

Blais & Hermann Schmitt (red.), Leaders and Democratic Elections. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Persson, Anna & Martin Sjöstedt (2010). ”Den svaga staten: Demokrati och förvaltning i utvecklingsländer”, i Politik som organisation, Bo Rothstein (red.).

Lapuente, Victor (2010). “Mérito y Burocracia en la Administración” in Documentación Administrativa, Presidencia del Gobierno, Madrid.

Bågenholm, Andreas (2010) ”Att anklaga eller inte anklaga: korruption som valfråga”, i Ekman, Joakim & Jonas

Linde, (red.), Protest, populism och politikens förändrade villkor. Malmö: Liber.

Linde, Jonas & Joakim Ekman (2010). ”Inledning”, i Ekman, Joakim & Jonas Linde, (red.), Protest, populism och politikens förändrade villkor. Malmö: Liber.

2009

Bauhr, Monika (2009). “Stat eller marknad? Tre modeller för en renare utveckling”, i Anthonsen, Mette and

Sverker Jagers (red.), Rätt Grönt. Göteborg: Göteborg Studies in Politics.

Dahlström, Carl (2009). "Krisuppgörelsen och tjänstemannainflytande". In Santesson-Wilson, Peter and Gissur Ó
Erlingsson (red.), Reform: Förändring och tröghet i välfärdsstaterna. Stockholm: Norstedts.

Rothstein, Bo (2009). "The Universal Welfare State", in Svendsen, Gert T. & Gunnar L.H. Svendsen (red.),
Handbook Of Social Capital: The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Linde, Jonas & Joakim Ekman (2009). “Fond Memories of Dictatorships? Nostalgia and Support for Democracy in Post-Communist Europe”, in Uwe Backeds, Tytus Jaskulowski & Abel Polese, (red.), Totalitarismus und Transformation: Defizite der Demokratiekonsolidierung in Mittel- und Osteuropa. Göttingen: Vanderhoeck & Ruprecht.

Bauhr Monika (2009). “Stat eller marknad? Tre modeller för en renare utveckling” i Anthonsen, Mette and

Sverker Jagers (red.), Rätt Grönt. Göteborg: Göteborg Studies in Politics.

Bäck, Hanna & Jan Teorell (2009). “The Stability of Partisanship: Evidence from a Russian Panel Study”, in
Bartle, J. & Bellucci, P., (red.). Political Parties and Partisanship: Social Identities and Individual Attitudes. London: Routledge.

Dahlström, Carl(2009). “Krisuppgörelsen och tjänstemannainflytande”, i Santesson-Wilson, Peter and Gissur Ó
Erlingsson. Reform. Förändring och tröghet i välfärdsstaterna. Stockholm: Norstedts.

Dahlström, Carl, Lotte Jensen & Torbjörn Larsson (2009). “Styrning i Danmark och Sverige – de statliga budgetprocesserna 1976–2006”, in Pierre, Jon & Göran Sundström (red.), Samhällsstyrning i förändring. Malmö: Liber.

Holmberg, Sören (2009). “The Good Society Index”, in Esmer, Yilmaz, Klingemann, Hans-Dieter Klingemann  & Bi Puranen (red.), Religion, Democratic Values and Conflict. Uppsala: Uppsala University.

Holmberg, Sören & Lennart Weibull (2009). “Höstligt institutionsförtroende”, i Holmberg, Sören & Weibull, Lennart (red.), Svensk höst. Göteborg: SOM institutet.

Holmberg, Sören & Lennart Weibull (2009). ”Forskarsamhället kan inte andas ut”, i Holmberg, Sören & Weibull, Lennart (red.), Svensk höst. Göteborg: SOM institutet.

Linde, Jonas & Joakim Ekman. (2009). ”Demokrati och Demokratisering i Östeuropa”, i Björklund, Fredrika &
Johnny Rodin, (red.), Det nya Östeuropa: Stat och nation i förändring. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

2008
Berlin, Daniel (2008). ”Forskare och fiskare i skilda världar”, i Sören Holmberg and Lennart Weibull (red.), Skilda världar. SOM-report no 44. Gothenburg: the SOM Institute.


2007

Bauhr, Monika (2007). “Explaining Public Trust in Institutions. The Role of Consensual Expert Ideas”, in Lennart J. Lundqvist and Anders Biel (red.), From Kyoto to the Town Hall: Making International and National Climate Policy Work at the Local Level. London: Earthscan.

Hammar, Henrik & Sverker C. Jagers (2007). ”Is there a tradeoff between cost effective climate policies and political legitimacy?”, in Lennart J. Lundqvist and Anders Biel (red.), From Kyoto to the Town Hall: Making International and National Climate Policy Work at the Local Level. London: Earthscan.

Naurin, Daniel (2007). “Deliberation Behind Closed Doors. Transparency and Lobbying in the European Union”. Colchester: ECPR Press.


Doktorsavhandlingar

Jenny de Fine Licht (2014). Magic Wand or Pandora´s Box? How transparency in decision making affects public perceptions of legitimacy. Quality of Government Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.

Niklas Harring (2014). The Multiple Dilemmas of Environmental Protection: The Effects of Generalized and Political Trust on the Acceptance of Environmental Policy Instruments. Quality of Government Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.

Mathias Färdigh (2013). What’s the Use of a Free Media? The Role of Media in Curbing Corruption and Promoting Quality of Government. Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg.

Agnes Cornell (2013). Institutional Impediments and Reluctant Actors – The Limited Role of Democracy Aid in Democratic Development. Quality of Government Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.

Maria Gustavson (2012). Auditing the African State: International Standards and Local Adjustments. School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg.

Martin Sjöstedt (2008). Thirsting for Credible Commitments. How Secure Land Tenure Affects Access to Drinking Water in Sub-Saharan Africa. Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.

Anna Persson (2008). The Institutional Sources of Statehood. Assimilation, Multiculturalism, and Taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.


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