In this paper I purport to explain how and why electoral corruption was abolished in the case of Sweden, drawing on original data from second-instance election petitions filed in 1719-1909. These petitions reveal fraudulent practices in the electoral history of Sweden, most notably systematic...

Domestically, democracy or democratization has not proved as successful in bringing about preferred economic and social consequences as has “good governance” and quality of government. Within the field of international relations, by contrast, one of the strongest empirical regularities still...

This paper is one of the first to systematically identify the relative influence of ethnic identity, campaign strategies of political parties' candidates , poverty, evaluations of public and private goods performance in making citizens turning new democracies into swing voters. It brings...