Table Of ContentTHE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
THE QUALITY OF
GOVERNMENT
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
THE
QUALIT Y OF
GOVERNMENT
Edited by
ANDREAS BÅGENHOLM,
MONIKA BAUHR,
MARCIA GRIMES, AND
BO ROTHSTEIN
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
List of Contributors xiii
Introduction: Quality of Government: Why— What— How xix
Andreas Bågenholm, Monika Bauhr, Marcia Grimes,
and Bo Rothstein
PART I THEORY AND CONCEPTUALIZATION
1. Quality of Government: Theory and Conceptualization 3
Bo Rothstein
2. The Universalization of Ethical Universalism 25
Alina Mungiu- Pippidi
3. “Quality of Government”: A Philosophical Assessment 42
Nikolas Kirby and Jonathan Wolff
4. Shadow Elites: Beyond Institutional Corruption Theory and
Ill- Conceived Anticorruption Regimes and Toward A New
Research Agenda 63
Janine R. Wedel
PART II DATA AND METHODOLOGICAL
APPROACHES
5. Measuring the Unmeasurable? Taking Stock of QoG Measures 93
Nicholas Charron
6. Down- to- Earth. What Can We Learn from Local Case Studies? 115
Eliška Drápalová
7. What Can We Learn about Corruption from Historical Case Studies? 139
Mark Knights
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8. The Ethnographic Study of Corruption 162
Davide Torsello
PART III DEMOCRACY, ACCOUNTABILITY,
AND PARTICIPATION
9. Democracy and the Quality of Government 181
Monika Bauhr and Marcia Grimes
10. Electoral Accountability and Corruption 209
Andreas Bågenholm
11. Quality of Government and Political Support 228
Jonas Linde and Stefan Dahlberg
12. Trust, Populism, and the Quality of Government 249
Philip Keefer, Carlos Scartascini, and
Razvan Vlaicu
13. Social Accountability and Quality of Government: Effectiveness
and Recursive Effects 268
Frida Boräng and Marcia Grimes
14. Civil Society against Corruption 290
Donatella Della Porta and Alice Mattoni
15. Electoral Rules and Corruption: A Meta-A nalysis 309
Georgios Xezonakis and Stephen Dawson
PART IV SUSTAINABILITY
AND DEVELOPMENT
16. Inequality and Corruption 337
Jong- Sung You
17. The Quality of Government and Economic Growth 359
Pelle Ahlerup, Thushyanthan Baskaran, and Arne Bigsten
18. Economic Diversification, Homogeneity of Interests, and
the Impartiality of Government 378
Petrus Olander
Contents vii
19. Quality of Government and Environmental Sustainability 399
Marina Povitkina and Simon Matti
20. Inequality, Education, and Corruption 427
Eric M. Uslaner
PART V INTERNATIONAL POLICIES
AND GLOBAL STRATEGIES
21. Foreign Aid and Quality of Government 449
Simone Dietrich and Matthew S. Winters
22. Corruption, Elites, and Power: An Overview of International
Policy Efforts to Improve the Quality of Government 472
Francis Fukuyama and Francesca Recanatini
23. International Efforts to Combat Corruption 495
Mathis Lohaus and Ellen Gutterman
24. Controlling Corruption: Institutional Strategies 516
Michael Johnston
PART VI DIVERSITY, SOCIAL COHESION,
AND WELL-B EING
25. Quality of Government and Social Trust 539
Peter Thisted Dinesen and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov
26. Gender, Gender Equality, and Corruption: A Review of
Theory and Evidence 559
Amy C. Alexander
27. Bringing Politics Back In: Ethnic Fractionalization, Quality of
Government, and Public Goods Provision Revisited 580
Anna Persson
28. Happiness and the Quality of Government 601
John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, and Shun Wang
29. Governance Beyond the State: Social Institutions and
Service Delivery 620
Ruth Carlitz and Ellen Lust
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PART VII STATE STRUCTURE AND POLICY
30. Bureaucracy and Government Quality 641
Carl Dahlström and Victor Lapuente
31. Pockets of Effectiveness and Islands of Integrity: Variation in
Quality of Government within Central State Administrations 662
Erin Metz Mcdonnell and Luiz Vilaça
32. Improving Governance in Tightly Controlled Societies:
The Importance of Transformational Leadership 684
Robert I. Rotberg
33. Taxation and the Quality of Government 701
Steven M. Karceski and Edgar Kiser
34. Quality of Government and Welfare State Support 723
Staffan Kumlin
PART VIII STATE-B UILDING
AND BREAKDOWN
35. The Challenge of State-B uilding in Historical Perspective:
How States Are Built Critically Affects Political Development
and Quality of Government 739
Sheri Berman
36. State Capacity, Quality of Government, Sequencing, and
Development Outcomes 757
Michelle D’arcy and Marina Nistotskaya
37. The Quality of Government and Civil Conflict 781
Annekatrin Deglow and Hanne Fjelde
38. Organized Crime and the Quality of Government 800
Leslie Holmes
Index 827
Figures
5.1 Studies with the word “corruption”: 1970–2 018 95
5.2 Taxonomy of governance indicator dimensions—e xample of corruption 96
7.1 A detail of an untitled, uncatalogued satire from the later sixteenth century
(British Museum 1916,0212.2, Object reference number: PPA93310).
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Reproduced with permission. 153
7.2 BM Satires 9214, James Gillray, The Tree of Liberty (1798) © The Trustees
of the British Museum. Reproduced with permission. 154
9.1 The relationship between democracy and corruption 182
11.1 A conceptual framework for analyzing democratic evaluations 230
11.2 Electoral democracy and satisfaction with the way democracy works. 234
11.3 Economic development (GDP/c apita) and satisfaction with the way
democracy works 235
11.4 Quality of government and satisfaction with the way democracy works 236
15.1 The distribution of effect size estimations (r) by electoral system dimension 318
15.2 Forest plot illustrating the reported effect of the proportionality of the
electoral formula on the quality of government 320
15.3 Forest plot illustrating the reported effect of district magnitude on the
quality of government 322
15.4 Forest plot illustrating the reported effect of the personal vote on the
quality of government 323
15.5 Forest plot illustrating the reported effect of the personal vote on the
quality of government 324
16.1 The association between inequality and corruption, by duration
of democracy 347
19.1 World countries plotted according to their quality of government
and environmental performance 404
19.2 World countries plotted according to their quality of government
and ecological footprint per capita for consumption 405
20.1 Corruption 2010 vs corruption 1900 429
20.2 Corruption 2010 by mean school years 1870 431
26.1 Summary of micro theoretical assumptions 563
26.2 Macro theoretical assumptions 565
