Elites, Institutions and the Quality of Government (Hardcover)

List of illustrations Abbreviations Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. How institutions constrain elites from destructive behavior; Carl Dahlstrom and Lena Wangnerud 2. Good Societies Need Good Leaders on a Leash; Soren Holmberg and Bo Rothstein 3. Are Corrupt Elites Necessary for Corrupt Countries?; Susan Rose-Ackerman 4. Prestige, Immunity and Diplomats: Understanding Sexual Corruption; Ann Towns PART II: HISTORY AND STATE-BUILDING 5. The Political and Historical Origins of Good Government: How Social Contracts Shape Elite Behavior; Anna Persson and Martin Sjostedt 6. Political Leadership and Quality of Government: Restraining Elites at Nascent Statehood; Ulrika Moller and Isabell Schierenbeck 7. Rulers and their Elite Rivals: How Democratization has Increased Incentives for Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa; Michelle D'Arcy 8. Stability and Stagnation; Anders Sundell PART III: POWER-SHARING 9. Democratic and Professional Accountability; Carl Dahlstrom and Victor Lapuente 10. Property Rights without Democracy: The Role of Elites' Rotation and Asset Ownership; Leonid Polishchuk and Georgiy Syunyaev 11. Dynamic Economic Growth as a Constraint on Elite Behavior; Petrus Olander 12. Political Control of Bureaucracies as an Incentive for Party Behavior; Agnes Cornell and Marcia Grimes PART IV: POLITICAL PARTIES 13. Political Parties and the Politics of The Quality Of Government; Philip Keefer 14. Why Women In Encompassing Welfare States Punish Corrupt Political Parties; Helena Stensota, Lena Wangnerud and Mattias Agerberg 15. Anti-Corruption Parties and Good Government; Andreas Bagenholm and Nicholas Charron 16. Can Elections Combat Corruption? Accountability and Partisanship; Georgios Xezonakis, Spyros Kosmidis and Stefan Dahberg Index