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" Good government : "
edited by Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein
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BL
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638384
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Good government : : the relevance of political science /\ edited by Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein
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xi, 354 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9780857934925
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: 0857934929
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: Political science and the importance of good government / Sören Holmberg and Bo Rothstein -- Part I: What it is. Defining and measuring quality of government / Bo Rothstein and Jan Teorell -- Public administration around the world / Carl Dahlström, Victor Lapuente and Jan Teorell -- Need or greed corruption? / Monika Bauhr -- Impartiality and the need for a public ethics of care / Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta -- Part II: How to get it. In democracy we trust, but how much? / Nicholas Charron and Victor Lapuente -- Press freedom and corruption / Mathias A. Färdigh, Emma Andersson and Henrik Oscarsson -- Weberian bureaucracy and corruption prevention / Carl Dahlström and Victor Lapuente -- Do international organizations promote quality of government? / Monika Bauhr and Naghmeh Nasiritousi -- State legitimacy and the corruptibility of leaders / Anna Persson and Martin Sjöstedt -- Legislators and variation in quality of government / Staffan I. Lindberg -- Why women are less corrupt than men / Lena Wängnerud -- Rethinking the nature of the grabbing hand / Anna Persson, Bo Rothstein and Jan Teorell -- Part III: What you get. Part of the solution / Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein and Naghmeh Nasiritousi -- Access to safe water / Sören Holmberg and Bo Rothstein -- Happiness / Marcus Samanni and Sören Holmberg
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This work shows that research in political science does not always shy away from the big questions
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Political science
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Public administration
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Political sociology
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306.2
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JA76.G66 2012
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Holmberg, Sören,1943-
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Rothstein, Bo,1954-
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