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050 00 $aJA76$b.G65 2012
245 00 $aGood government :$bthe relevance of political science /$cedited by Sören Holmberg and Bo Rothstein.
264 1 $aCheltenham, UK ;$aNorthampton, MA, USA :$bEdward Elgar,$c[2012]
300 $axi, 354 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
520 8 $aThis work shows that research in political science does not always shy away from the big questions.
650 0 $aPolitical science.
650 0 $aPublic administration.
650 0 $aPolitical sociology.
650 7 $aPolitical science.$2fast
650 7 $aPolitical sociology.$2fast
650 7 $aPublic administration.$2fast
650 7 $aGood Governance$2gnd
700 1 $aHolmberg, Sören,$d1943-$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aRothstein, Bo,$d1954-