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Political institutions and the corruption of politics [PDF]
This chapter introduces the “players and arenas-” framework to assess corruption within political institutions. Central to the argument is acknowledging that corruption arises when actors from varied arenas exploit legal and illegal channels to influence policy and politics, often disadvantaging less powerful and influential counterparts.
Huss, Oksana +2 more
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Foreign capital, forest change and regulatory compliance in Congo Basin forests
Environmental Research Letters, 2014 Tropical forest change is driven by demand in distant markets. Equally, investments in tropical forest landscapes by capital originating from distant emerging economies are on the rise.
Jodi S Brandt +3 more
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Political ObserverThe literature on vote buying in democracies worldwide abounds, although with visible conceptual gaps stemming from the current discourse in conceptualising its various genres such as vote selling, retailing, and wholesaling, and votes trading, among ...
Aminu Musa +2 more
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Pandemics meet democracy: the footprint of COVID-19 on democratic attitudes
Political Science Research and MethodsHow did the COVID-19 outbreak affect citizens’ democratic preferences? Were the changes persistent or temporary? We track a representative sample of Spanish citizens before, during, and after the pandemic, with eight survey waves from January 2020 to ...
Francesc Amat +3 more
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BMC Health Services ResearchBackground A thorough understanding of later-life transitions is key to designing and providing healthcare services that can help older adults and their carers navigate such times in life.
Maria Vittoria Bufali +3 more
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On crisis trends in the legitimacy of the political regimes of the Baltic States [PDF]
Baltic Region, 2015 This article considers the legitimacy of political regimes in the Baltic States by analysing three major parameters: confidence in political institutions, level of corruption, and the development of their party systems.
Smirnov Vadim
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Trust and Distrust in Political Institutions
Journal of Political SociologyThe analysis of trust in political institutions is rich in insights, but constrained by two conceptual limitations critically discussed in this paper. Research privileges trust and marginalises distrust, thus providing an incomplete and flawed picture ...
Christian Lahusen
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International Journal of the Commons, 2016 Governing common pool resources (CPR) in the face of disturbances such as globalization and climate change is challenging. The outcome of any CPR governance regime is the influenced by local combinations of social, institutional, and biophysical factors,
Jacopo Alessandro Baggio +11 more
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Why Do Autocrats Need Elections? Political Science about the Role of Elections in Authoritarianism
Сравнительная политика, 2020 Relatively recently, students of authoritarianism have not paid much attention to institutions. It was believed that since authoritarian rule is generally an arbitrariness, its institutionalism is not really important.
Yu. S. Medvedev
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, 2001 AbstractThe more complex the political institutions, the more stable and socially efficient the outcomes will be. This book develops an extensive analysis of this relationship. The discussion is theoretical, historical, and comparative. Concepts, questions, and insights are based on social choice theory, while an empirical focus is cast on about 40 ...
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