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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Multiple datesSociety and economyDEMSCORE Conference June2023
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Society and economyQoG lunchseminar with Gregg VanRyzin
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with GustavAgneman
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with SergejusMuravjovas
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with AbbeySteele
News
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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).
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Society and economyQoG Annual Report2022
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Society and economyWinner of the QoG Best Paper Award2022
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Society and economyQoG scholars get 3.75 million Euro for 5th and 6th rounds of Measuring the Quality of Government at the SubnationalLevel
Read our latest peer-reviewed articles
- Imperfect Victims? Civilian Men, Vulnerability, and Policy Preferences (External link)
- Electoral competition, political parties and clientelism: evidence from local e… (External link)
- Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusti… (External link)
- Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of w… (External link)
- Search among all our peer-reviewed articles
Read our latest working papers
- 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)
- Drought and Political Trust (External link)
- Logics of Action: How state institutions may undergird or undermine participato… (External link)
- Search among all our working papers (External link)