[HTML][HTML] Does foreign aid harm political institutions?

S Jones, F Tarp - Journal of Development Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains
prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political …

[引用][C] Organizing Leviathan: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Making of Good Government

C Dahlström - 2017 - books.google.com
Why are some countries less corrupt and better governed than others? Challenging
conventional explanations on the remarkable differences in quality of government …

Careers, connections, and corruption risks: Investigating the impact of bureaucratic meritocracy on public procurement processes

N Charron, C Dahlström, M Fazekas… - The Journal of …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Why do officials in some countries favor entrenched contractors, while others assign public
contracts more impartially? This article emphasizes the important interplay between politics …

Do corruption measures have a perception problem? Assessing the relationship between experiences and perceptions of corruption among citizens and experts

N Charron - European Political Science Review, 2016 - cambridge.org
How well do corruption perception measures reflect actual levels of public sector corruption?
Leading cross-national corruption perception measures have come under much theoretical …

The C hinese paradox of high growth and low quality of government: the cadre organization meets max weber

B Rothstein - Governance, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Much research has argued for the importance of state's administrative capacity for
development. Disregard for the rule of law and failure to get corruption under control are …

A lexical index of electoral democracy

SE Skaaning, J Gerring… - Comparative Political …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent years have seen an efflorescence of work focused on the definition and
operationalization of democracy. One debate concerns whether democracy is best …

State capacity and political regime stability

D Andersen, J Møller, LL Rørbæk… - The State-Democracy …, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Two recent strands of research have proposed that state capacity facilitates autocratic and
democratic survival, respectively. While convincing arguments sustain each of these …

Measuring electoral integrity around the world: A new dataset

P Norris, RW Frank, FM i Coma - PS: Political Science & Politics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Many contentious elections end in disputes about alleged fraud, irregularities, and
malpractices. How do we know when these claims are valid and when they are false …

[图书][B] The rule of law: definitions, measures, patterns and causes

J Møller, S Skaaning - 2014 - books.google.com
Through critical analysis of key concepts and measures of the rule of law, this book shows
that the choice of definitions and measures affects descriptive and explanatory findings …

A new cross-national measure of corruption

L Escresa, L Picci - The World Bank Economic Review, 2017 - academic.oup.com
A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic
distribution of public officials involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is …