During the last 20 years, the QoG Institute has directed attention of scholars and policy-makers to issues such as impartiality in the exercise of public power, professionalism in public service delivery, effective measures against corruption, and meritocracy instead of patronage and nepotism. We celebrate the anniversary of the QoG Institute with an international conference to take stock of the accumulated knowledge and to discuss the avenues for further research.
Preliminary agenda
Monday 20 May
16.30-17.00 Registration and coffee
17.00-18.00 Welcome and introduction to the QoG research
18.00-18.45 Keynote session by Sören Holmberg and Bo Rothstein:“How to organize a successful research institute”
Tuesday 21 May
09.00-10.30 Panel 1
09.00-09.15 Mark Knights & Ronald Kroeze: “A Prospectus for a History of Corruption”
09.15-09.30 Robert I. Rotberg: “Governance and National Outcomes”
09.30-09.45 Jan P. VOGLER: "The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy: The Emergence of Modern Administrative Organizations"
09.45-10.00 Discussants
10.00-10.30 Open discussion
10.30-11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.30 Panel 2
11.00 -11.15 David Andersen: “Plights of Patrimonialism: The Causes of Incumbent-led Democratic Breakdowns”
11.15-11.30 Svend-Erik Skaaning: “Does ethno-political exclusion cause civil war onset via grievances? Evidence from comparative case studies”
11.30-11.45 Palina Kolvani: “On Mechanisms of Meritocratic Bureaucracy: Competence and Autonomy”
11.45-12.00 Discussants
12.00-12.30 Open discussion
12.30-13.15 Lunch at Restaurant Handelsrätten
13.15-14.45 Panel 3
13.15-13.30 Burhan Can Karahasan: “Quality of government cohesion across the EU regions: Success or failure?”
13.30-13.45 Julia Fleischer: “The Structural Backbones of the Leviathan: A New Perspective on Administrative State Capacity in Europe”
13.45-14.00 Mihály, Fazekas: “Mayors‘ salaries and public procurement corruption risks: Evidence from 10 European countries”
14.00-14.15 Discussants
14.15-14.45 Open discussion
14.45-15.15 Break
15.15-16.45 Panel 4
15.15-15.30 Maria Nagawa: “Foreign Aid and the Performance of Bureaucrats”
15.30-15.45 Luca Andriani & Conrad Dumbah: “Government Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa”
15.45-16.00 Merete Bech Seeberg: “Women’s road to parliament in Africa: Do voters respond differently to campaign strategies depending on candidate gender?”
16.00-16.15 Discussants
16.15-16.45 Open discussion
Wednesday 22 May
09.00-10.30 Panel 5
09.00-09.15 Tanushree Goyal: “Does local leadership lower bias in law enforcement? Evidence from Experiments with India’s rural politicians”
09.15-09.30 Emanuel Wittberg: “In the local, we trust? On within-country variations of multilevel trust”
09.30-09.45 Elisa, Wirsching: “Politicized Meritocracy: Determinants of Partisan and Racial Selection in US City Bureaucracy”
09.45-10.00 Discussants
10.00-10.30 Open discussion
10.30-11.00 Break
11.00-12.30 Panel 6
11.00-11.15 Bilyana Petrova: “Perceptions about Institutional Quality and Preferences for Economic Redistribution”
11.15-11.30 Michael Ting: “Organizational Capacity and Project Dynamics”
11.30-11.45 Rajeev Goel: “Election campaign finance bans in parliamentary and presidential democracies and corruption”
11.45-12.00 Discussants
12.00-12.30 Open discussion
12.30-13.30 Lunch in the lobby
13.30-15.00 Panel 7
13.30-13.45 Oriol Sabaté: “Power sharing and administrative reforms: the case of Chile under military rule (1925-31)“
13.45-14.00 Claudia N. Avellaneda: “Implementation of the Mexican Meritocratic System: Assessing Its Impartiality and Gender Effects“
14.00-14.15 Julieta Casas: "Building Bureaucratic Capacity: The Political Origins of Civil Service Reforms"
14.15-14.30 Discussants
14.30-15.00 Open discussion
