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.
Evenemang
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ResearchQoG seminar with Taiwo Ayodeji Ahmed
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with SergejusMuravjovas
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Society and economyCANCELLED: QoG lunch seminar with AbbeySteele
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with PedroMagalhães
News
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Society and economyTHE QOG BEST PAPER AWARD 2023: CALL FORPAPERS
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Society and economyERC grant for research into extreme weather and gender equality in Africanpolitics
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Society and economyQoG scholars granted money for part in a large EUproject
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Society and economyNew episode on the QoGPodcast!
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Society and economyQoG researchers receive 122,500 EUR for their part in the project Fight Against Large-scale Corruption and Organised Crime Networks (FALCON).
Read our latest peer-reviewed articles
- Imperfect Victims? Civilian Men, Vulnerability, and Policy Preferences (External link)
- ‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far … (External link)
- Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusti… (External link)
- No taxation without state-assigned property rights: formalization of individual… (External link)
- Search among all our peer-reviewed articles
Read our latest working papers
- The Impact of Organized Crime on Decent Jobs for Youth. Evidence from Italy (External link)
- Corruption, Trust, and Attitudes Towards Carbon Taxes: Survey experimental evid… (External link)
- The intergenerational transfer of public sector jobs: Nepotism or social reprod… (External link)
- Electoral Clientelism and Redistribution: How Vote Buying Undermines Citizen De… (External link)
- Search among all our working papers (External link)