Explaining the welfare state: Power resources vs. the Quality of Government

European Political Science Review

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-28

  Rothstein, bo ^a   Samanni, Marcus ^a   Teorell, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

bureaucratic quality; corruption; good governance; legitimacy; state capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011454611     PISSN: 17557739     EISSN: 17557747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773911000051     Document Type: Article

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