Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take explicitly or implicitly agency theory as a theoretical basis. The emerging psychological economics opens a new perspective. As scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven...

Standard economics uses a one-dimensional concept of motivation. It assumes that people are perfectly rational and are solely motivated in a selfish way. This essay argues that people differ in their preferences with respect to pro-social orientations, that preferences are plastic and...

One aim of the QoG Institute is to make publicly available cross-national comparative data on QoG and its correlates. To accomplish this objective we have compiled both a cross-sectional data-set with global coverage pertaining to the year 2009 (or the closest year available), and a...

The QoG Basic dataset is available in both a time-series (TS) version and a cross-section (CS) version.In the CS dataset, we have data from and around 2010. Simply put, we have included data from 2010. If there was no data for that particular year on a variable, we have taken data from the year...

In the QoG Basic CS dataset, data from and around 2017 is included. Data from 2017 is prioritized, however, if no data is available for a country for 2017, data for 2018 is included. If no data exists for 2018, data for 2016 is included, and so on up to a maximum of +/- 3 years.In the QoG Basic...

The recent growth in research on "good governance" and the quality of government institutions has been propelled by empirical findings that show that such institutions may hold the key to understanding economic growth and social welfare in developing and transition countries. We argue, however,...

The QoG Basic dataset is a smaller version of the QoG Standard dataset. It consists of approximately 300 variables from 75 different data sources.In the QoG Basic CS dataset, data from and around 2012 is included. Data from 2012 is prioritized, however, if no data is available for a country for...

The QoG Basic dataset is a smaller version of the QoG Standard dataset. It consists of approximately 300 variables from 75 different data sources.In the QoG Basic CS dataset, data from and around 2013 is included. Data from 2013 is prioritized, however, if no data is available for a country for...