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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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with AbbeySteele
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with Matthias vomHau
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with LaurelWeldon
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with Olga Lavrinenko
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Society and economyQoG lunch seminar with JørgenMøller
News
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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
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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
Read our latest peer-reviewed articles
- Provider Ownership and Indicators of Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Res… (External link)
- Electoral competition, political parties and clientelism: evidence from local e… (External link)
- Predictors of COVID-19 outcomes among residents of Swedish long-term care facil… (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
- Executive Appointments under Legislative Oversight (External link)
- Political Will for Anti-Corruption Reform: Communicative pathways to collective… (External link)
- Who gains access to public services? Social bargaining, corruption and street-l… (External link)
- Logics of Action: How state institutions may undergird or undermine participato… (External link)
- Search among all our working papers (External link)