What Is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government Institutions

By Bo Rothstein, Jan Teorell. 2008

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Provision of electricity to African households: The importance of democracy and institutional quality (2015, background): “…democracy and institutional quality are key prerequisites for the active support of and the provision of public goods (McGuire and Olson, 1996; Deacon, 2003; Lake and Baum, 2001; Acemoglu and Robinson, 2006; Boix et al., 2003; Rothstein, 2011; Rothstein and Teorell, 2008; Schmitter and Karl, 1991).”
Quality of government and regional resilience in the European Union. Evidence from the Great Recession (2019, background): “In general, the quality of government will be higher the less corrupt is the government, the higher its degree of impartiality and the higher the quality of the public services provided (Rothstein and Teorell, 2008).”
Building Boom and Political Corruption in Spain (2009, background): “[3] The definition of what is the public interest is of course a central and complex issue in discussion about corruption (Friedrich 1972) and the quality of government (see Rothstein & Teorell 2008; Frederickson 1997).”
Anti-corruption: the indirect ‘big bang’ approach (2011, neutral): “The advantage of this definition is that it can be traced back to normative theories about justice as well as democracy (Rothstein and Teorell, 2008).”
Explaining the welfare state: power resources vs. the Quality of Government (2011, background): “Our central hypothesis, in line with Rothstein and Teorell (2008), is that without a reasonably high level of QoG, political mobilization for welfare state policies in the way that PRT has outlined is unlikely to have broad appeal.”
Government quality, egalitarianism, and attitudes to taxes and social spending: a European comparison (2012, background): “…2008; Tavits, 2008), economic development (Acemoglu et al., 2001, 2002; Levine and Easterly, 2003), social trust (Rothstein and Uslaner, 2005; Rothstein and Teorell, 2008; Rothstein and Eek, 2009), political legitimacy (Anderson and Tverdova, 2003; Gilley, 2006), and welfare state spending…”