This study is part of the collection Quality of Government
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
University of Gothenburg, Quality of Government Institute
Jan Teorell
- Lund University, Department of Political Science
Richard Svensson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Marcus Samanni - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Staffan Kumlin - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Stefan Dahlberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Bo Rothstein - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Sören Holmberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Description
The QoG Institute is an independent research institute within the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. Overall 30 researchers conduct and promote research on the causes, consequences and nature of Good Governance and the Quality of Government - that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions.
The main objective of our research is to address the theoretical and empirical problem of how political institutions of high quality can be created and maintained. A second objective is to study the effects of Quality of Government on a number of policy areas, such as health, the environment, social policy, and poverty.
The dataset was created as part of a research project titled “Quality of Government and the Conditions for Sustainable Social Policy”. The aim of the dataset is to promote cross-national comparative research on social policy output and its correlates, with a special focus on the connection between social policy and Quality of Government (QoG).
The data comes in three versions: one cross-sectional dataset, and two
Subject area
Government, political systems and organisations
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Principal organisation
Accessibility status
Responsible department/unit
University of Gothenburg, Quality of Government Institute
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
University of Gothenburg, Quality of Government Institute
Jan Teorell
- Lund University, Department of Political Science
Richard Svensson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Marcus Samanni - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Staffan Kumlin - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Stefan Dahlberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Bo Rothstein - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Sören Holmberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Identifiers
SND-ID: EXT 0004
Description
The QoG Institute is an independent research institute within the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. Overall 30 researchers conduct and promote research on the causes, consequences and nature of Good Governance and the Quality of Government - that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions.
The main objective of our research is to address the theoretical and empirical problem of how political institutions of high quality can be created and maintained. A second objective is to study the effects of Quality of Government on a number of policy areas, such as health, the environment, social policy, and poverty.
The dataset was created as part of a research project titled “Quality of Government and the Conditions for Sustainable Social Policy”. The aim of the dataset is to promote cross-national comparative research on social policy output and its correlates, with a special focus on the connection between social policy and Quality of Government (QoG).
The data comes in three versions: one cross-sectional dataset, and two
Time period(s) investigated
1946 — 2009
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, New Caledonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom, Korea (the Republic of), Czech Republic, Turkey, Germany, Hungary, United States, Austria
Geographic description: Time-series datsets ("long" and "wide"): 40 countries Cross-sectional dataset: 194 countries
Lowest geographic unit
Country
Highest geographic unit
Country
Unit of analysis
Population
Countries
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Subject area
Government, political systems and organisations
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
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Dataset 1
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
University of Gothenburg, Quality of Government Institute
Jan Teorell
- Lund University, Department of Political Science
Richard Svensson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Marcus Samanni - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Staffan Kumlin - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Stefan Dahlberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Bo Rothstein - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Sören Holmberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Description
Keywords
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Time period(s) investigated
2002
Dataset 2
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
University of Gothenburg, Quality of Government Institute
Jan Teorell
- Lund University, Department of Political Science
Richard Svensson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Marcus Samanni - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Staffan Kumlin - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Stefan Dahlberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Bo Rothstein - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Sören Holmberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Description
Keywords
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Time period(s) investigated
1946 — 2009
Dataset 3
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
University of Gothenburg, Quality of Government Institute
Jan Teorell
- Lund University, Department of Political Science
Richard Svensson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Marcus Samanni - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Staffan Kumlin - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Stefan Dahlberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Bo Rothstein - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Sören Holmberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Description
The dataset combining cross-sectional data and time-series data for a selection of 40 countries. The dataset is specifically tailored for the analysis of public opinion data over time, instead uses country as its unit of observation, and one variable for every 5th year from 1970-2005 (or, one per module of each public opinion data source).
Samanni, Marcus. Jan Teorell, Staffan Kumlin, Stefan Dahlberg, Bo Rothstein, Sören Holmberg & Richard Svensson. 2012. The QoG Social Policy Dataset, version
Keywords
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Time period(s) investigated
1970 — 2005