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 economyNew book on Youth Representation and why young people are excluded fromoffice
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Society and economyNew episode of the QoGPodcast
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Society and economyECPR workshop on ”Misconduct and Whistleblowing inPolitics”
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Society and economyRiksbankens Jubiluemsfond grants money for three new QoGprojects
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Society and economyResearch grant for evaluating SIDA’s effort to reduce corruption in partnercountries
Evenemang
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with Christopher A.Cooper
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with JenniferSelin
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Society and economyGeneral Research Seminar with Lars-ErikCederman
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with JohnNye
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with DanielBrieba
Read our latest peer-reviewed articles
- Electoral competition, political parties and clientelism: evidence from local e… (External link)
- Poll Wars: Perceptions of Poll Credibility and Voting Behaviour (External link)
- Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of w… (External link)
- Female representation and electoral clientelism: New insights from South Africa… (External link)
- Search among all our peer-reviewed articles
Read our latest working papers
- Introducing Uncertainty: Community Driven Development and Local Collective Acti… (External link)
- Danger all Along How foreign military threats and domestic power-sharing shape … (External link)
- School’s out! Information Cues and Retrospective Voting in the Case of School C… (External link)
- Pre-suffrage impartiality, democratic experience and clientelism: How sequencin… (External link)
- Search among all our working papers (External link)

