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 economyThe 2021 edition of QoG Datasets arereleased
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Society and economyAnnouncement of The Quality of Government Institute Best Paper Award Winner2019/2020
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Sustainability and environmentThe Swedish Research Council awards money to a new QoG relatedproject
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Society and economyRELEASE OF 2ND EDITION OF QOG EU REGIONALDATASET
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Society and economyNEW QOG DATA ON SWEDISHMUNICIPALITIES
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)
- Search among all our peer-reviewed articles
Read our latest working papers
- Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000… (External link)
- The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report (External link)
- Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of w… (External link)
- Search among all our working papers (External link)
Evenemang
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Society and economyGeneral Research Seminar with LisaHultman
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Society and economyGeneral Research Seminar with Magnus Bergli Rasmussen & Carl HenrikKnutsen
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