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PhD Political Science University of Gothenburg
Masters Political Science University of Gothenburg

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According to Wikipedia, Bo Abraham Mendel Rothstein is a Swedish political scientist. He is a former Professor of Government and Public Policy at University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government. Rothstein is a contributor to Swedish public debate about politics and academic freedom. He has been especially critical of what he perceives as politicized research at some universities in Sweden. In 2003, he received the Swedish Association of University Teachers' prize for academic freedom. Rothstein received the prize for having "in the public debate argued for the importance of independent university teaching and research".

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Quality of Government (2021) (1033)
What Is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government Institutions (2008) (1001)
The State and Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust (2008) (690)
All for One: Equality, Corruption, and Social Trust (2005) (636)
Why Anticorruption Reforms Fail—Systemic Corruption as a Collective Action Problem (2013) (610)
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust (2005) (609)
Trust, Social Dilemmas and Collective Memories (2000) (498)
Making and Breaking Social Capital (2005) (477)
Just Institutions Matter: The Moral and Political Logic of the Universal Welfare State (1998) (448)
Quality of Government: What You Get (2009) (342)
Controlling Corruption (2021) (304)
Social Capital in the Social Democratic Welfare State (2001) (296)
Creating Political Legitimacy (2009) (284)
Anti-corruption: the indirect ‘big bang’ approach (2011) (280)
Social Capital, Impartiality and the Welfare State: An Institutional Approach (2003) (252)
The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, Version Jan19 (2015) (244)
Political Institutions: An Overview (1998) (231)
Structuring politics: Labor-market institutions and working-class strength (1992) (207)
Introduction: Social Capital in Scandinavia (2003) (198)
Political Corruption and Social Trust (2006) (186)
The Quality of Government: Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective (2011) (185)
Social Capital, Economic Growth and Quality of Government: The Causal Mechanism (2003) (182)
THE UNIVERSAL WELFARE STATE AS A SOCIAL DILEMMA (2001) (173)
Just institutions matter (1998) (157)
Good Government: The Relevance of Political Science (2012) (153)
Explaining the welfare state: power resources vs. the Quality of Government (2011) (147)
Dying of corruption (2010) (142)
Creating social trust in post-socialist transition (2004) (132)
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (2004) (126)
Sweden: Social Capital in the Social Democratic State (2002) (125)
Bad Governance and Poor Children: A Comparative Analysis of Government Efficiency and Severe Child Deprivation in 68 Low- and Middle-income Countries (2013) (125)
Corruption and Social Trust: Why the Fish Rots from the Head Down (2014) (124)
Sweden: The Fall of the Strong State (2006) (118)
Quality of Government and Corruption from a European Perspective: A Comparative Study of Good Government in EU Regions (2013) (117)
All for All: Equality and Social Trust (2005) (116)
State Building in Scandinavia (1994) (110)
Restructuring the welfare state : political institutions and policy change (2002) (108)
The failure of Anti-Corruption Policies A Theoretical Mischaracterization of the Problem (2010) (108)
The social democratic state : the Swedish model and the bureaucratic problem of social reforms (1997) (106)
The Chinese Paradox of High Growth and Low Quality of Government: The Cadre Organization Meets Max Weber (2015) (104)
Defining and Measuring Quality of Government (2012) (89)
Creating Political Legitimacy: Electoral Democracy versus Quality of Government (2008) (87)
The Quality of Government Dataset, Version 6Apr11 (2011) (81)
Social Capital and Street-Level Bureaucracy: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust (2001) (74)
The Quality of Government Basic Dataset, version Jan15 (2015) (74)
Political Institutions and Generalized Trust (2008) (73)
Questioning the New Liberal Dilemma: Immigrants, Social Networks, and Institutional Fairness (2010) (70)
Does education lead to higher generalized trust? The importance of quality of government (2016) (67)
Making Sense of Corruption (2017) (65)
What is the opposite of corruption? (2014) (63)
Social Trust and Honesty in Government: A Causal Mechanisms Approach (2004) (60)
Explaining Swedish Corporatism: The Formative Moment (1992) (58)
Marxism, Institutional Analysis, and Working-Class Power: The Swedish Case (1990) (57)
What is Quality of Government: A Theory of Impartial Institutions (2009) (57)
Getting to Sweden, part II: Breaking with Corruption in the Nineteenth Century (2015) (50)
Corporatism and Reformism: The Social Democratic Institutionalization of Class Conflict (1987) (49)
State Building and Capitalism: The Rise of the Swedish Bureaucracy (1998) (48)
Anti-Corruption: A Big-Bang Theory (2009) (46)
Civil War Spain Versus Swedish Harmony (2014) (43)
It's My Money: Why Big Government May Be Good Government (2015) (41)
QOG WORKING PAPER SERIES 2005 : 6 What is Quality of Government ? A Theory of Impartial Political Institutions (2005) (41)
The Reproduction of Gender Inequality in Sweden: A Causal Mechanism Approach (2012) (36)
Institutional Choices and Labor Market Policy (1993) (36)
Reinventing Weber: The Role of Institutions in Creating Social Trust (2010) (36)
Political Legitimacy for Public Administration (2003) (36)
Exploring a Causal Relationship between Vertical and Horizontal Trust (2005) (35)
Corruption, Bureaucratic Failure and Social Policy Priorities (2013) (35)
The Quality of Government Dataset, version 17June09 (2009) (34)
State Structure and Variations in Corporatism: The Swedish Case* (1991) (34)
The Quality of Government and Social Capital: A Theory of Political Institutions and Generalized Trust (2007) (33)
Social Justice and State Capacity (1992) (33)
Bribery in Preindustrial Societies (2014) (33)
State and Capital in Sweden: The Importance of Corporatist Arrangements (1988) (32)
Getting to Sweden, Part I: War and Malfeasance, 1720–1850 (2015) (32)
The Quality of Government Dataset, Version 27May10 (2010) (31)
Trusting other people (2017) (31)
Happiness and the Welfare State (2014) (31)
" Tax Evasion, Trust, and the Strong Arm of the Law " * (2003) (31)
The state and civil society in a historical perspective: the Swedish case (2007) (30)
Getting the basic nature of systemic corruption right: A reply to Marquette and Peiffer (2019) (29)
Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms* (2006) (29)
The Nordic Exceptionalism:: What Explains Why the Nordic Countries are Constantly Among the Happiest in the World (2020) (29)
The Social Democratic State (1995) (28)
Making Development Work - The Quality of Government Approach (2015) (26)
The Quality of Government Dataset Codebook (2011) (25)
The Universal Welfare State (2009) (25)
Sense of Community: Trust, Hope and Worries in the Welfare State (2009) (25)
The Quality of Government EU Regional Dataset, Version Sep16 (2016) (24)
The Success of the Swedish Labour Market Policy: the Organizational Connection to Policy* (1985) (24)
Restructuring Politics: Institutional Analysis and the Challenges of Modern Welfare States (2002) (23)
Is Corruption Understood Differently in Different Cultures? Anthropology meets Political Science (2013) (22)
Corruption, Happiness, Social Trust and the Welfare State: A Causal Mechanisms Approach (2010) (22)
Investing in Social Capital: The Impact of Welfare State Institutions (2003) (22)
The Crisis of the Swedish Social Democrats and the Future of the Universal Welfare State (1993) (22)
Fighting Systemic Corruption: The Indirect Strategy (2018) (22)
The Quality of Government Basic Dataset made from The QoG Standard Dataset version 6Apr11 (2012) (21)
Regions of trust and distrust: how good institutions can foster social cohesion: The Social Challenge Ahead (2018) (20)
The Mysterious Survival of the Swedish Welfare State (2004) (20)
Government Partisanship and Managing the Economy: Japan and Sweden in Comparative Perspective (2006) (19)
Governing religion: the long-term effects of sacred financing (2013) (18)
Is the Universal Welfare State a Cause or an Effect of Social Capital (2008) (18)
Managing the Welfare State: Lessons from Gustav Möller* (1985) (17)
Solidarity, Diversity, and the Quality of Government (2017) (17)
Mass Education, State-Building and Equality: Searching for the Roots of Corruption (2012) (17)
The future of the universal welfare state: An institutional approach (2000) (16)
Just institutions matter: The political and moral logic of the universal welfare state (1998) (15)
GETTING TO SWEDEN: Malfeasance and Bureaucratic Reforms, 1720-1850 (2013) (14)
Quality of Government, Political Power and the Welfare State (2010) (14)
is political science producing technically competent barbarians? (2005) (13)
GOVERNMENT LEGITIMACY AND THE LABOUR MARKET: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES (1994) (13)
Rethinking the nature of the grabbing hand (2012) (13)
SOCIAL TRUST, QUALITY OF GOV- ERNMENT AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY An Empirical Analysis of 206 Regions in Europe (2014) (13)
The Quality of Government Basic Dataset made from The Quality of Government Dataset, Version 15May13 (2013) (12)
Guilty as charged? Human well-being and the unsung relevance of political science (2015) (12)
The End of Swedish Exceptionalism (2014) (12)
Epistemic democracy and the quality of government (2018) (11)
Quality of government and epistemic democracy (2012) (11)
Creating State Legitimacy – The Five Basic Models (2007) (11)
Quality of Government is Needed to Reduce Poverty and Economic Inequality (2010) (11)
Impartiality as a Basic norm for the quality of government: A reply to Francisco Longo and Graham Wilson (2008) (11)
IS CORRUPTION UNDERSTOOD DIFFERENTLY IN DIFFERENT CULTURES? (2013) (10)
IS CORRUPTION UNDERSTOOD DIFFERENTLY IN DIFFERENT CULTURES? (2013) (10)
Cooperation for Social Protection (2002) (10)
Just institutions matter: Contents (1998) (10)
Why No Democracy in the Arab-Muslim World? The Importance of Temple Financing and Tax Farming (2011) (10)
Can Auditing Generate Trust? The Organization of Auditing and the Quality of Government (2013) (10)
MASS EDUCATION, STATE- BUILDING AND EQUALITY (2012) (10)
Why Big Government is Good Government (2011) (9)
Minorities and Mistrust: The Cushioning Impact of Social Contacts and Institutional Fairness (2008) (9)
The Fall of the Strong State (2006) (9)
Just institutions matter: The autonomous citizen and the future of the universal welfare policy (1998) (9)
The QoG Social Policy Dataset Codebook (2010) (9)
Is governance possible (1998) (8)
The Quality of Government OECD Dataset, version Jan18 (2018) (8)
Can markets be expected to prevent themselves from self‐destruction? (2011) (8)
Political Legitimacy and the Welfare State: Five Basic Models (2008) (7)
Understanding the Quality of Government in China: The Cadre Administration Hypothesis (2012) (6)
Preventing Markets from Self-Destruction: The Quality of Government Factor (2009) (6)
Social Democracy in Crisis? What crisis? (2013) (6)
The Mechanisms of Corruption: Interest vs. Cognition (2006) (6)
Social Capital and Institutional Legitimacy : (2001) (6)
Corruption and the Opposite to Corruption A Map of the Conceptual Landscape (2014) (6)
The Roots of Corruption: The Roots of Corruption: Mass Education, Economic Inequality and State Building (2012) (6)
Ethical Codes for the Public Administration. A Comparative Survey (2017) (6)
THE QOG STANDARD DATASET (2011) (6)
How to get at Causality in the Social Sciences: Multiple Regressions Versus Case Studies (2007) (6)
Special Section: Small States in the World of Markets (2003) (5)
Good Societies Need Good Leaders on a Leash (2015) (5)
HUMAN WELL-BEING AND THE LOST RELEVANCE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE (2014) (5)
Mapping the Quality of Government in Europe (2018) (5)
Special Section: Small States in the World of Markets (2003) (5)
Access to Safe Water (2012) (4)
Conceptualizing QoG: A Comparative Study of Good Government in EU Regions (2013) (4)
The relevance of comparative politics (2020) (4)
Corruption, Gender Equality and Feminist Strategies. (2016) (4)
A Theory of Impartial Political Institutions (2005) (4)
The Three Worlds of Governance: Arguments for a Parsimonius Theory of Quality of Government (2013) (4)
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust: The transition from mistrust to trust (2005) (4)
The Moral, Economic, and Political Logic of the Swedish Welfare State (2015) (4)
CORRELATES OF THE GOOD SOCIETY (2014) (4)
CORRUPTION AND RISKS Anti-corruption: the indirect 'big bang' approach (2011) (3)
A Symposium on Methodology in Comparative Research (2007) (3)
Causes of Corruption (2015) (3)
Does Education Lead to Higher Generalized Trust? (2017) (3)
Perspectives about the Difference in the Relevance of American and European Political Science (2016) (3)
Universal Education (2021) (3)
Introduction: Political Science and the Importance of Good Government (2012) (3)
The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society (2006) (3)
Can Efficient Institutions Induce Cooperation Among Low Trust Agents? (2013) (3)
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust: On the theory and practice of social capital (2005) (2)
Social Protection Strategies in Efficient and Inefficient States (2009) (2)
Auditing, Trust, and the Social Contract (2021) (2)
Religion and Corruption (2017) (2)
Just institutions matter: What can the state do? An analytical model (1998) (2)
2. Understanding the Universal Welfare State: An Institutional Approach (2001) (2)
Gender Equality, Corruption and Meritocracy (2017) (2)
Religion and Institutional Quality: Long-Term Effects of the Financial Systems in Protestantism and Islam (2020) (2)
Epistemic Democracy , Corruption and Human Well-Being (2016) (2)
Corruption, Gender Equality and Meritocracy (2018) (2)
Questioning the New Liberal Dilemma (2010) (2)
Book Reviews : Richard Scase (Ed.): The State in Western Europe, Croom Helm, London 1980, 282 pp (1981) (1)
Institutional Quality Causes Social Trust: Evidence from Survey and Experimental Data on Trusting Under the Shadow of Doubt (2020) (1)
Gender Equality, Impartiality, and Meritocracy (2021) (1)
Trust and Social Capital (2017) (1)
POOR GOVERNMENT AND POOR CHILDREN: An analysis of government efficiency and sever child deprivation in 70 low- and middle-income countries. (2012) (1)
Protestantism as Conducive and Syncretism as a Hindrance to South Africa ’ s Democratic Development (2017) (1)
Corruption as the Connecting Core (2017) (1)
1. The Relevance of Comparative Politics (2020) (1)
Dead and alive in Social Democracy (2011) (1)
Restructuring Politics : Institutional Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Welfare States (2002) (1)
Correlates of Corruption (2019) (1)
UNDERSTANDING THE QUALITY OF GOVERNMENT IN CHINA (2012) (1)
The Evolution of Corruption as a Concept (2017) (0)
Corruption and Patrimonialism (2017) (0)
Foreword (2022) (0)
Introduction: A Comparative Study of Good Government in EU Regions (2013) (0)
Mapping-Related Disciplines (2017) (0)
Institutional Quality Causes Social Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting Under the Shadow of Doubt (2020) (0)
The Quality of Government Institute at Göteborg University (2007) (0)
Corruption and the Social Contract of the Welfare State (2021) (0)
Preventing markets from self-destruction (2017) (0)
Civic Literacy: How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work. By Henry Milner. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2002. 256p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper (2003) (0)
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust: Reflections after a long day in Moscow (2005) (0)
In Conclusion: What Is the Opposite of Corruption? (2017) (0)
Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting under the Shadow of Doubt (2023) (0)
The Quality of Government Factor (2009) (0)
Just institutions matter: Bibliography (1998) (0)
Lack of Safe Water , Quality of Government and Choler a (2010) (0)
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust: The problem of institutional credibility (2005) (0)
Religion, Corruption, and the Social Contract (2021) (0)
An Experimental Approach (2005) (0)
Corruption and the Relevance of Political Science (2017) (0)
Causes of corrup tion (2014) (0)
Index: A Comparative Study of Good Government in EU Regions (2013) (0)
Just institutions matter: Speculation and discipline (1998) (0)
The Swedish Democracy Project (2016) (0)
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust: Bibliography (2005) (0)
PPS volume 9 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
EPR volume 4 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2012) (0)
Just institutions matter: Putting history in order (1998) (0)
How is social capital produced (2005) (0)
alike, as evidenced in the 2020 Principles andGuidance on Human Subjects Research issued by the American Polit- (2022) (0)
A Discussion of Alexander Cooley and Jack Snyder's Ranking the World: Grading States as a Tool for Global Governance (2017) (0)
Antikorruption – big bang-ansatsen (2013) (0)
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust: On the rational choice of culture (2005) (0)
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust: The conditions of trust and the capacity for dialog (2005) (0)
A Creative University: Is It Possible?. (1991) (0)
The Social Contract and the Indirect Approach to Anti-Corruption (2021) (0)
A New Strategy for Anti-Corruption (2021) (0)
The Quality of Govern ment Instituteat Gbte- borg University (2007) (0)
The Stockholm Seminars: Frontiers in Sustainability Science and Policy The Dynamics of Social Trust (2007) (0)
Getting to Sweden I (2021) (0)
Correlates of Electoral Democracy (2019) (0)
Contents: A Comparative Study of Good Government in EU Regions (2013) (0)
Just institutions matter: The universal welfare state and the question of individual autonomy (1998) (0)
Getting to Sweden II (2021) (0)
The Resilience of the Swedish Model of Welfare in the Global Economy (2006) (0)
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust: Trust and collective memories (2005) (0)
Corruption, State Capture and Political Particularism (2017) (0)
Corruption and Patronage (2017) (0)
The End of Swedish Exceptionalism Why the Elections Mark a New Era for Politics (2017) (0)
Part of the Solution (2012) (0)
Just institutions matter: Toward a constructive theory of public policy (1998) (0)
The Contributors (2006) (0)
The Chinese Exception and Alternative (2017) (0)
The Shadow of the Swedish Right (2023) (0)
Copyright: A Comparative Study of Good Government in EU Regions (2013) (0)
Corruption and Human Rights (2017) (0)
The Determinants of Institutional Quality. How Leaders' Percieved Threat of Losing Power Without Compensation Affects Economic Development (2010) (0)
[New ethics education proposed in all higher education]. (2015) (0)

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