Elites, Institutions and the Quality of Government

To a large extent, elite politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen hold the fortunes of their societies in their hands. This edited volume describes how formal and informal institutions affect elite behaviour, which in turn affects corruption and the quality of government.

Mattias Agerberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Andreas Bågenholm, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science and the Program Manager for the Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Nicholas Charron, Associate Professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School and the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden Agnes Cornell, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Government, Aarhus University, Denmark Stefan Dahlberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Carl Dahlström, Professor at the Quality of Government Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Michelle D’Arcy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Marcia Grimes, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Sören Holmberg, Professor Emeritus in political science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Philip Keefer, Principal Advisor of the Institutions for Development Department of the Inter-American Development Bank Spyros Kosmidis, Departmental Lecturer in Quantitative Methods, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK Victor Lapuente, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Ulrika Möller, Assistant Professor in Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Petrus Olander, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Anna Persson, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Leonid Polishchuk, Economics Professor, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University, USA Bo Rothstein, August Röhss Chair in Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Isabell Schierenbeck, Associate Professor in Political Science, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Martin Sjöstedt, Associate Professor in political science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta, Associate Professor in political science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Anders Sundell, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Georgiy Syunyaev, Columbia University, New York, USA Ann Towns, Associate Professor in political science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Lena Wängnerud, Professor in political science, Quality of Government Institute and the Multidisciplinary Opinion and Democracy Research Group at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden Georgios Xezonakis, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg and a Research Fellow at the Quality of Government Institute