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📢 Call for Papers: Conceptualising & Measuring State Capacity Join the open panel at #IPSA2027, convened by Marina Nistotskjaya (QoG) & Andrea Vaccaro (EUI). Theoretical & empirical papers welcome! 🔗 wc2027.ipsa.org/wc/panel/con…

Conceptualising and Measuring State Capacity

State capacity is a concept of growing importance in political research. Broadly speaking, it refers to the state’s ability to implement policies, yet there is considerable scholarly disagreement...

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📢 New research by our colleagues Hayden Buker & Marina Nistotskaya examines how scientific and local knowledge complement each other in donor anti-corruption efforts, drawing on evidence from Sida. Read the article: doi.org/10.1177/000276422614… #AntiCorruption #DevelopmentResearch

Scientific and Local Knowledge in Donor Anti-Corruption Efforts: The Case of Sida - Hayden Buker,...

Donor organizations engaged in anti-corruption efforts navigate between research-based and context-responsive approaches, each grounded in distinct forms of kno...

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📢 New publication by our colleagues Jana Schwenk & Jacob R. Gunderson! Do voters care about democracy within political parties? Yes. Their new study shows that voters prefer genuinely democratic primaries—not window dressing. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/01402382.202…

Broken promises? Voters prefer intraparty democracy, not window dressing

Leadership selection is one of a political parties’ key functions, and inclusive leadership selection processes are increasingly common in West European democracies. Yet, inclusive leadership selec...

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New research in @EJPRjournal: Do election wins and losses shape political trust? Results find elections generally boost trust—but winners gain more, especially when their party enters government. Populist voters are particularly sensitive to outcomes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S14756765261…

Losing elections, losing trust? A quasi-experimental investigation of the winner-loser gap on...

Losing elections, losing trust? A quasi-experimental investigation of the winner-loser gap on political trust

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Congratulations to our colleague Marina Nistotskaya and (former QoG intern) Palina Kolvani for being awarded the 2026 Elinor Ostrom Prize for the best full-length article published in Journal of Institutional Economics.
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New publication in Regulation & Governance by Saverio Di Giorno, Monika Bauhr, and Francesco Busato on corruption risks, public procurement, and candidates with business ties. #PoliticalScience #Corruption #Governance doi.org/10.1111/rego.70170

What Candidates Benefit From Corruption? Opportunities for Corruption and the Prevalence of...

Which candidates benefit from corruption and favoritism in public procurement? While existing studies show that politically connected firms profit from corruption risks in public procurement, we...

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Read the latest news from the QOG Institute. In this newsletter: 📬 📚 New Publications and Projects 🙏 Thank you, Natalia Alvarado! 🎉 Welcoming a New Colleague 🏆 Awards and More... mailchi.mp/284aee6f175f/qog-…
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📄 New QoG Working Paper by Nønne Schjærff Engelbrecht: Corruption – the Mother of Maternal Mortality? The paper explores how corruption affects maternal mortality and what this means for health and social justice. 🌍 👉 Read more: gu.se/sites/default/files/20…
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New working paper: Dumping the Rules examines why illegal waste management persists in Sweden. The findings suggest that governance failures—not just enforcement gaps—create opportunities for non-compliance. ♻️🚛 #WasteManagement #Governance #Sweden gu.se/sites/default/files/20…
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New publication by Jana Schwenk on gender differences in political party donations across Italy, the UK, and Finland. doi.org/10.1017/S14756765261… #PoliticalScience #GenderPolitics #PartyFinance

Gender differences in donating to political parties – Evidence from reporting data | European...

Gender differences in donating to political parties – Evidence from reporting data

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New publication in EJPR: Stephen Dawson examines how fairness and loyalty shape politicians’ willingness to blow the whistle on misconduct within their own parties. doi.org/10.1017/S14756765261… #PoliticalScience #Whistleblowing #EJPR

When do politicians choose to upset the apple cart? The fairness-loyalty trade-off in whistleblow...

When do politicians choose to upset the apple cart? The fairness-loyalty trade-off in whistleblowing

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📚 New book by Lena Wängnerud: Corruption and the Gender-Sensitive State. The book explores how corruption undermines gender equality and introduces the concept of gender-sensitive state power. link.springer.com/book/10.10… #GenderEquality #Corruption #PoliticalScience

Corruption and the Gender-Sensitive State

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What Candidates Benefit From Corruption? Opportunities for Corruption and the Prevalence of...

Which candidates benefit from corruption and favoritism in public procurement? While existing studies show that politically connected firms profit from corruption risks in public procurement, we...

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New working paper: Changing Boundaries: Harmonizing Territorial Data for Comparative Subnational Research. 2,070 municipal territorial changes across 35 European countries + a new open-access harmonization infrastructure: LoQoG Dataspace. 🔗gu.se/sites/default/files/20…
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Our colleague Lena Wängnerud has been awarded the Riksdag Medal (eighth size) for meritorious contributions to the Riksdag. Congratulations Lena! gu.se/en/news/political-scie…

Political scientist Lena Wängnerud awarded the Riksdag Medal

The Speaker of the Riksdag, Andreas Norlén, has decided to award Lena Wängnerud, Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, the Riksdag Medal (eighth size) for meritorious...

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📢 New working paper: Inefficiency is worse for cooperation than corruption Experiments in Germany & Romania show people react more strongly to inefficiency than corruption 🔬🌍 gu.se/sites/default/files/20…
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📢 New in World Development: Public support for military conservation in India, Indonesia & South Africa. Survey data shows backing for tougher anti-poaching measures 🪖—but non-military approaches are still preferred in some contexts ⚖️. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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📢 We’re hiring! We are looking for an Associate Researcher to join the project “The Local Quality of Government (Lo-QoG) dataset: A hub for local societal indicators across Europe.” Learn more: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005… #AcademicJobs #PoliticalScience #DataScience #QoG #Gothenburg
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New QoG working paper out📊 The “winner–loser gap” in democratic satisfaction has nearly doubled since 1995—driven by dissatisfied electoral losers, not polarization 🌍📉 Based on 1.2M+ responses across 92 democracies. #PoliticalScience #Democracy #QoG gu.se/sites/default/files/20…
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Congrats to our colleague Aksel Sundström and co-authors 🎉📚 Their article “Youth Representation and Democratic Legitimacy” has won this year’s SPPQ Best Paper Award 🏆—recognizing the top paper on U.S. state politics or policy presented in the past year 👏
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