📢 New QoG Working Paper! Climate Shocks, Gender & Incumbency Punishment Do voters judge women leaders differently in climate crises?🌍 ✅ Rewarded more if they deliver relief ❌ Punished harder if they fail 💡 Corruption perceptions skewed by gender 🔍 Read: www.gu.se/sites/defaul...

(in Swedish)🎧 Korruption fördjupar fattigdom & orättvisor – men varför är den så svår att bekämpa? Anna Persson (QoG), Jamie Smith (SIDA) och Númi Östlund (EBA) i nytt EBA-samtal: 👉 soundcloud.com/user-7156653...

🏆 QoG Best Paper Award 2025 🏆 The Quality of Government Institute (Univ. of Gothenburg) is awarding the best paper on QoG-related topics. ⏰ Eligible: Sept 2024 – Sept 2025 (pubs & intl. conferences) 👉 Read more: www.gu.se/korruption-s... #QoG #Research #AcademicAwards

1 year before Sweden’s 2026 election, our colleagues Ann-Kristin Kölln & Jana Schwenk urge stronger transparency & oversight of party financing to safeguard trust in democracy. www.dn.se/debatt/valjarna-maste-fa-veta-vem-som-betalar-partinotan/

QoG's founder Bo Rothstein, in a talk hosted by David Levi-Faur, on his groundbreaking work on trust, institutions & corruption. Featuring three of his major work: 📘 The Quality of Government (2011) 📘 Making Sense of Corruption (2017) 📘 Controlling Corruption (2021) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vSk...

The clarity of legal language is often overlooked in debates about quality of government. Yet, laws that are difficult to interpret don’t just frustrate bureaucrats — they can undermine impartiality itself. Check out this new working paper by Nilsson and Nistotskaya www.gu.se/sites/defaul...

Populist leaders often claim that bureaucracy stiffles growth - but evidence shows the opposite. Marina Nistotskaya and Palina Kolvani explain how merit-based civil services not only strengthen governments but also boost entrepreneurship and economic dynamism. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

Read the latest news from the QoG Institute. In this newsletter: - New publications - New staff - and more... mailchi.mp/ca3ec604254d...

📘 New in Governance: Anna Persson, Frida Boräng & Ruth Carlitz introduce ideational reach—a fresh take on state capacity. It’s not just about institutions, but about belief in the idea of the state as legitimate authority. 🧠🏛️🌍 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove... #StateCapacity #Governance #PoliticalScience

🗳️ New research by Monika Bauhr & Nicholas Charron on the 2023 Polish election reveals a paradox: citizens offered clientelistic incentives were more likely to vote, yet less likely to trust electoral institutions. doi.org/10.1080/1351... #Democracy #PoliticalScience #Clientelism #Poland2023

🧵 New policy brief: "Tackling high-level corruption across Europe". QoG scholars Nistotskaya & Wittberg played a key role in shaping the insights + policy recs. Full brief 👉 www.falcon-horizon.eu/2025/04/poli...

🎉 New study by Palina Kolvani and Marina Nistotskaya: Merit-based recruitment in public admin boosts entrepreneurship by enhancing bureaucratic competence and impartiality. Mechanisms matter. doi.org/10.1017/S174... #Meritocracy #Governance #PublicAdmin #Development

"📢 New Working Paper Alert! "Governing Corporate Accountability: Extraterritoriality and the Effectiveness of NCP Mediation" by Mirja Sund and Marina Nistotskaya. 📝 Read the paper: www.gu.se/sites/defaul...

New report identifies six high-risk areas where corruption threatens to have far-reaching, system-threatening consequences within the EU. One of these is the public procurement sector, which accounts for 14 percent of the EU's GDP. Read the full report: data.europa.eu/doi/10.2837/...

📢 Registration is now open for #DEMSCORE Conference 2025, June 9-10 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Register here: www.demscore.se/events/demsc...

📚 30 peer-reviewed articles 📄 16 QoG working papers 🌍 17 visiting scholars 📊 25,379 data downloads This and much more you can read about in the QoG Annual Report for 2024! www.gu.se/sites/defaul...

🌍 New Report Alert! 📢 The QoG/Lancet Policy Day Report explores how institutional quality, health equity & gender equality drive peace & resilience in crises. Key insights & policy solutions from global experts! 🔎 Read more: www.gu.se/sites/defaul...

📢 Want to better understand what's at stake in Trump/Musk's upending of the U.S. federal bureaucracy? 🤯💼 Check out this Open Access 📖 volume – especially the contribution by QoG scholar Marina Nistotskaya on "The Future of Bureaucratic Merit." 🎓⚖️ library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

🎉 We are very happy to announce that the 🏆 2024 Quality of Government Best Paper Award goes to Gustavo Guajardo for his paper: “The Political Calculus of Anticorruption Reform.” 🎖️👏 www.gu.se/en/quality-g...

🌍💰How does government quality shape public support for climate taxes? A new study by Dragana Davidovic, analyzing 135 European regions, reveals a key factor: corruption. doi.org/10.1017/S175... #ClimateAction #GoodGovernance #PublicTrust #ClimateTax #Sustainability #PolicyResearch

⏰One month left to submit panel proposals and paper abstracts for the DEMSCORE Conference 2025, June 9-10 in Gothenburg. 📆 Abstract and Proposal Submission Deadline: March 16, 2025 www.demscore.se/events/demsc... #PoliSky @ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social

Research from the QoG Institute shows that women's education 👩‍🎓, access to public healthcare 🏥, well-functioning water and sewage systems 🚰, and an impartial public administration ⚖️ are success factors that contribute to a thriving society. www.gu.se/en/news/gend...

Are you a master’s student and interested in research on quality of government and corruption? We are looking for 2-3 interns for autumn 2025! 🔹 20-week full-time internship 🔹 Gain hands-on research experience 🔹 Participate in seminars & events 📅 Apply by 3 April. www.gu.se/en/quality-g...

QoG Working Paper 2025:1 is out! Jesper Lindqvist, Mikael Persson and Anders Sundell combine international survey data with fiscal statistics, and find that the public generally favors increased spending on most areas and lower taxes for most citizens. www.gu.se/sites/defaul...

The episode #123 of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast features an insightful discussion with experts from the QoG Institute, Marcia Grimes and Monika Bauhr, on the complex relationship between corruption and democracy. 🎧 Listen now: soundcloud.com/kickback-gap...

The 2025 update of the QoG Datasets is out! 🎉 This year's collection includes 2098 variables from 128 data sources, organized into 19 categories. Get the latest open-source compilations: www.gu.se/en/quality-g... Explore variables & datasets in our refreshed Data Finder: datafinder.qog.gu.se