Jan Teorell

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the concept of quality of government should be best understood as that of having impartial government institutions, which avoids functionalism and ignores the contents of specific policies in favor of the procedures for how they are implemented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a more coherent and specific definition of QoG: the impartiality of institutions that exercise government authority, which they relate to a series of criticisms stemming from the fields of public administration, public choice, multiculturalism, and feminism.

TL;DR: This paper explored the extent to which regime type explains the survival and breakdown of non-democratic regimes as well as the impact of different types of authoritarian regimes on democratic development, and demonstrated that different regimes face different propensities to develop toward democracy, hence the nature of the authoritarian regime in question deserves to be added to the list of democracy's essential preconditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that part of the reason why anticorruption reforms in countries plagued by widespread corruption fail is that they are based on a theoretical mischaracterization of the problem of systemic corruption.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for an approach to conceptualize and measure regimes such that meaningful comparisons can be made through time and across countries, and review some of the payoffs such an approach might bring to the study of democracy.