The QoG Institute
The Quality of Government (QoG) Institute was founded in 2004 by Professor Bo Rothstein and Professor Sören Holmberg. It is an independent research institute within the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. We are about 30 researchers who conduct and promote research on the causes, consequences and nature of Good Governance and the Quality of Government (QoG) - that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions.
While Quality of Government is our common intellectual focal point, we apply a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives.
The main objective of our research is to address the theoretical and empirical problem of how political institutions of high quality can be created and maintained. A second objective is to study the effects of Quality of Government on a number of policy areas, such as health, the environment, social policy, and poverty. We approach these problems from a variety of different theoretical and methodological angles.
News
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Society and economyWinner of the QoG Best Paper Award2023
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Society and economyQoG Dataset Update2024
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Society and economyNew Research grants fromVR
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Society and economyThe FALCON project (Fight Against Large-scale Corruption and Organised CrimeNetworks)
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Society and economyTHE QOG BEST PAPER AWARD 2023: CALL FORPAPERS
Read our latest peer-reviewed articles
- The Double Democratic Bind: Challenges to Enacting Mandates and Combating Misin… (External link)
- Making space: citizens, parties and interest groups in two ideological dimensio… (External link)
- For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refug… (External link)
- Unpacking the relevance interpersonal trust in the blockchain era: theory and e… (External link)
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Read our latest working papers
- The Geography of Quality of Government in Europe. Subnational variations in the… (External link)
- Buying Quiescence: The Influence of Resource Reliance on Citizens’ Demand for D… (External link)
- Are different types of corruption tolerated differently? (External link)
- Dimensions of State Capacity and Modes of Democratic Breakdown (PDF) (External link)
- Search among all our working papers (External link)