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Corruption has become a central issue in current policy debates. This
Handbook provides state of the art research on this important topic. It demonstrates the disastrous effects of high levels of corruption for most areas of human well-being and presents research results about strategies that can get corruption under control.
List of contents
- Introduction: Quality of Government: Why - What - How
- Part I: Theory and Conceptualization
- 1: Bo Rothstein: Quality of Government: Theory and Conceptualization
- 2: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi: The Universalization of Ethical Universalism
- 3: Nikolas Kirby and Jonathan Wolf: 'Quality of Government': A Philosophical Assessment
- 4: Janine Wedel: Shadow Elites: Beyond Institutional Corruption Theory and Ill-conceived Anti-Corruption Regimes. Toward A New Research Agenda
- Part II: Data and methodological Approaches
- 5: Nicholas Charron: Measuring the Unmeasurable? Taking Stock of QoG Measures
- 6: Eliska Drapalova: Down-To-Earth: What Can We Learn From Local Case Studies?
- 7: Mark Knights: What We Can Learn About Corruption From Historical Case Studies?
- 8: Davide Torsello: The Ethnographic Study of Corruption
- Part III: Democracy, Accountability, and Participation
- 9: Monika Bauhr and Marcia Grimes: Democracy and the Quality of Government
- 10: Andreas Bågenholm: Corruption Voting and Electoral Accountability
- 11: Jonas Linde and Stefan Dahlberg: Quality of Government and Political Support
- 12: Philip Keefer, Carlos Scartascini, and Razvan Vlaicu: Trust, Populism, and the Quality of Government
- 13: Frida Boräng and Marcia Grimes: Social Accountability and Quality of Government: Effectiveness and Recursive Effects
- 14: Donatella della Porta and Alice Mattoni: Civil Society Against Corruption
- 15: Georgios Xezonakis and Stephen Dawson: Electoral Rules and Corruption: A Meta-Analysis
- Part IV: Sustainability and Development
- 16: Jong-sung You: Inequality and Corruption
- 17: Pelle Ahlerup, Thushyanthan Baskaran, and Arne Bigsten: The Quality of Government and Economic Growth
- 18: Petrus Olander: Economic Diversification, Homogeneity of Interests and the Impartiality of Government
- 19: Marina Povitkina and Simon Matti: Quality of Government and Environmental Sustainability
- 20: Eric Uslaner: Inequality, Education, and Corruption
- Part V: International Policies and Global Strategies
- 21: Simone Dietrich and Matthew S. Winters: Foreign Aid and Quality of Government
- 22: Francis Fukuyama and Francesca Recanatini: Corruption, Elites and Power: An Overview of International Policy Efforts to Improve the Quality of Government
- 23: Mathis Lohaus and Ellen Gutterman: International Efforts to Combat Corruption
- 24: Michael Johnston: Controlling Corruption: Institutional Strategies
- Part VI: Diversity, Social Cohesion, and Well-Being
- 25: Peter Thisted Dinesen and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov: Quality of Government and Social Trust
- 26: Amy C. Alexander: Gender, Gender Equality, and Corruption: A Review of Theory and Evidence
- 27: Anna Persson: Bringing Politics Back In: Ethnic Fractionalization, Quality of Government, and Public Goods Provision Revisited
- 28: John Helliwell, Haifang Huang, and Shun Wang: Happiness and the Quality of Government
- 29: Ruth Carlitz and Ellen Lust: Governance Beyond the State: Social Institutions and Service Delivery
- Part VII: State Structure and Policy
- 30: Carl Dahlström and Victor Lapuente: Bureaucracy and Government Quality
- 31: Erin Metz McDonnell and Luiz Vilaça: Pockets of Effectiveness and Islands of Integrity: Variation in Quality of Government Within Central State Administrations
- 32: Robert I. Rotberg: Improving Governance in Tightly Controlled Societies: The Importance of Transformational Leadership
- 33: Steven M. Karceski and Edgar Kiser: Taxation and the Quality of Government
- 34: Staffan Kumlin: Quality of Government and Welfare State Support
- Part VIII: State Building and Breakdown
- 35: Sheri Berman: The Challenge of State Building in Historical Perspective: How States are Built Critically Affects Political Development and Quality of Government
- 36: Michelle D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya: State Capacity, Quality of Government, Sequencing and Development Outcomes
- 37: Annekatrin Deglow and Hanne Fjelde: The Quality of Government and Civil Conflict
- 38: Leslie Holmes: Organized Crime and the Quality of Government
About the author
Andreas Bågenholm is Senior Lecturer and a Research Fellow at the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute, University of Gothenburg. Andreas Bågenholm's research focuses on electoral accountability and corruption. Bågenholm has published his work in several peer-reviewed journals, such as Electoral Studies, West European Politics and Public Choice.
Monika Bauhr is Associate Professor of Political Science and a Research Fellow at the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute, University of Gothenburg. She is currently a visitng scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. Her most recent work appears in journals such as the International Studies Quarterly, Global Environmental Politics, Governance, the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy and Comparative Political Studies.
Marcia Grimes is Associate Professor of Political Science and a Research Fellow at the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute, University of Gothenburg. She has published in numerous journals such as Governance, the Journal of Politics and the European Journal of Political Research.
Bo Rothstein holds the August Röhss Chair in Political Science, University of Gothenburg. Together with Sören Holmberg, he founded the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute, University of Gothenburg. His publications include Controlling Corruption (OUP, 2021), Making Sense of Corruption (with Aiysha Varraich, CUP, 2017), and Restructuring the Welfare State (with Sven Steinmo, Palgrave, 2002).
Summary
Corruption has become a central issue in current policy debates. This Handbook provides state of the art research on this important topic. It demonstrates the disastrous effects of high levels of corruption for most areas of human well-being and presents research results about strategies that can get corruption under control.
