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New working paper: Changing Boundaries: Harmonizing Territorial Data for Comparative Subnational Research.

2,070 municipal territorial changes across 35 European countries + a new open-access harmonization infrastructure: LoQoG Dataspace.

🔗https://t.co/kCrjL02Fdk

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Our colleague Lena Wängnerud has been awarded the Riksdag Medal (eighth size) for meritorious contributions to the Riksdag. Congratulations Lena!
https://t.co/zWUG0yOn85

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📢 New working paper: Inefficiency is worse for cooperation than corruption
Experiments in Germany & Romania show people react more strongly to inefficiency than corruption 🔬🌍
https://t.co/ckjueWwEAe

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📢 New in World Development: Public support for military conservation in India, Indonesia & South Africa.

Survey data shows backing for tougher anti-poaching measures 🪖—but non-military approaches are still preferred in some contexts ⚖️.

https://t.co/JboxaBIxMZ

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📢 We’re hiring!
We are looking for an Associate Researcher to join the project “The Local Quality of Government (Lo-QoG) dataset: A hub for local societal indicators across Europe.”
Learn more: https://t.co/M5bbfR3oRC
#AcademicJobs #PoliticalScience #DataScience #QoG #Gothenburg

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New QoG working paper out📊 The “winner–loser gap” in democratic satisfaction has nearly doubled since 1995—driven by dissatisfied electoral losers, not polarization 🌍📉 Based on 1.2M+ responses across 92 democracies.
#PoliticalScience #Democracy #QoG

https://t.co/Ro7KaZr1n7

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Congrats to our colleague Aksel Sundström and co-authors 🎉📚

Their article “Youth Representation and Democratic Legitimacy” has won this year’s SPPQ Best Paper Award 🏆—recognizing the top paper on U.S. state politics or policy presented in the past year 👏

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Today we congratulate Marina Nistotskaya (PI) 🎉 who has received SEK 250,000 from the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies for the project Academic Autonomy under Regime Change 📚🌍

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Read the latest news from the QoG Institute
In this newsletter:

📄 QoG Annual Report 2025
📚 New Publications
🎓 Internship at the QoG Institute

https://t.co/mDyXvO19Zj

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How we hire in the public sector shapes competence, independence & resistance to corruption.
Marina Nistotskaya & Liz David-Barrett on merit-based bureaucracy, political appointments, and new research on legal ambiguity & outsourcing. KickBack podcast🎧https://t.co/ppSWcZhIf7

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Can droughts shift who we trust to lead?
New research shows climate stress can increase support for women political leaders. 🌍🔥👩

https://t.co/Mucr6JIm4w

#ClimatePolitics #GenderAndLeadership

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📢 New in Environmental Politics: Harring, Sundström, Jagers & Povitkina on corruption & climate 🌍

Reviewing ~200 studies, they show how corruption undermines mitigation—raising emissions, weakening policy, and harming carbon sinks 🌳🎣

🔗 https://t.co/vNewVdvbIQ

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📚 New chapter by our colleague Anna Persson on corruption in the Elgar Encyclopedia of African Politics 🌍

Explores definitions, debates, and recent developments—highlighting ongoing challenges in sub-Saharan Africa 🚫💰

🔗 https://t.co/WXPjXdB5OJ

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We’ve made some updates to our Data Finder 🚀
Take a look and tell us what you think!
Spotted an issue or have a suggestion?
We’d love to hear from you: [email protected]
https://t.co/6UxqLocvmI

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Does foreign aid improve human rights?
A study of 121 countries (2002–2021) examines how aid may work through donor conditions and the spread of norms. Findings show a positive link between OECD/DAC aid and physical integrity rights and civil liberties.
https://t.co/W3T2UryDtT

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📚 19 peer-reviewed articles
💸 11 new research grants
🌍 14 visiting scholars
📊 60,660 data downloads

This and much more you can read about in the The Quality of Government Institute Annual report for 2025!
https://t.co/yhcn1n1NEr

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📰 QoG News February!
In this newsletter:
📊 QoG Dataset Update 2026
🏆 Winner of the QoG Best Paper Award 2025
🌍 DEMSCORE Conference 2026
📚 New publications
🗳️ Party leaks to the media coincide with internal conflicts
...and more
https://t.co/3YsZjGyAcd

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🏆2025 Quality of Government Best Paper Award goes to David Cerero Guerra, Ph.D. Candidate at Yale University, for his paper: "When Criminals Help the State: Winning Hearts and Minds through Facilitation of State Service Provision” 🎖️👏
https://t.co/Iin2BrCxrz

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Call for Papers and Panels DEMSCORE Conference 2026
June 8–9, Gothenburg, Sweden

https://t.co/GrWChb2erQ

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New article by our colleagues: The impact of corruption on climate change mitigation
Reviewing 200 studies, the authors find that corruption increases emissions and weakens climate policy effectiveness.
#ClimateChange #Corruption https://t.co/vNewVdvbIQ