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.
Read our latest peer-reviewed articles
- Democracy in context: using a distributional semantic model to study difference… (External link)
- Will Women Executives Reduce Corruption? Marginalization and Network Inclusion (External link)
- Unions and the rights of migrants in the long run (External link)
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Read our latest working papers
- Hits close to home: Shootings and support for the Sweden Democrats (External link)
- The Roots of Female Emancipation: The Initializing Role of Cool Water (External link)
- Institutional Quality Causes Social Trust: Evidence from Survey and Experimenta… (External link)
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