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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Bo Rothstein is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences with a focus on several subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, Demography, Public Administration, and Law.

The scientist's research topics cover diverse areas including Social Capital and Networks, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Culture, Economy, and Development Studies, Corruption and Economic Development, Public Policy and Administration Research, and Judicial and Constitutional Studies.

Bo Rothstein's recent publications include:

  • "The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version Jan21" (2021), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "The Quality of Government Basic Dataset, version Jan23" (2023), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting under the Shadow of Doubt" (2023), published in American Journal of Political Science
  • "The Shadow of the Swedish Right" (2023), published in Journal of democracy
  • "Institutional Quality Causes Social Trust: Evidence from Survey and Experimental Data on Trusting Under the Shadow of Doubt" (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Bo Rothstein frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Andrea Martinangeli
  • Marina Povitkina
  • Sverker C. Jagers
  • Stefan Dahlberg
  • Sören Holmberg

Their work appears most often in the following publication venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • American Journal of Political Science
  • Journal of democracy
  • Arkiv Tidskrift för samhällsanalys
  • European Political Science Review

Bo Rothstein's contributions to the study of institutional quality, social trust, and governance are reflected throughout their recent works, where experimental and survey data methods are frequently applied to understand trust dynamics in political and social contexts.

Best Publications

  • Just institutions matter : the moral and political logic of the universal welfare state

    Bo Rothstein

  • ALL FOR ALL Equality, Corruption, and Social Trust

    Bo Rothstein;Eric M. Uslaner

  • What Is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government Institutions

    Bo Rothstein;Jan Teorell

  • The Quality of Government: Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective

    Bo Rothstein

  • Social Traps and the Problem of Trust

    Bo Rothstein

  • The State and Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust

    Bo Rothstein;Dietlind Stolle

  • Why Anticorruption Reforms Fail—Systemic Corruption as a Collective Action Problem

    Anna Persson;Bo Rothstein;Jan Teorell

  • Making and Breaking Social Capital: The Impact of Welfare-State Institutions

    Staffan Kumlin;Bo Rothstein

  • Trust, Social Dilemmas and Collective Memories:

    Bo Rothstein

  • Vad bör staten göra? : om välfärdsstatens moraliska och politiska logik

    Bo Rothstein

  • Social Capital in the Social Democratic Welfare State

    Bo Rothstein

  • Political Institutions: An Overview

    Bo Rothstein

  • Creating Political Legitimacy: Electoral Democracy versus Quality of Government

    Bo Rothstein

  • Social Capital, Impartiality and the Welfare State: An Institutional Approach

    Bo Rothstein;Dietlind Stolle

  • Den korporativa staten : intresseorganisationer och statsförvaltning i svensk politik

    Bo Rothstein

  • 10. Labour-Market Institutions and Working-Class Strength

    Bo Rothstein

  • Quality of Government: What You Get

    Sören Holmberg;Bo Rothstein;Naghmeh Nasiritousi

  • Introduction: Social Capital in Scandinavia

    Bo Rothstein;Dietlind Stolle

  • Anti-corruption: the indirect ‘big bang’ approach

    Bo Rothstein

  • Sweden: The Fall of the Strong State

    Johannes Lindvall;Bo Rothstein

  • Making Sense of Corruption

    Bo Rothstein;Aiysha Varraich

  • The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version Jan21

    Jan Teorell;Aksel Sundström;Sören Holmberg;Bo Rothstein

  • Quality of Government

    Jan Teorell;Bo Rothstein

  • Controlling Corruption: The Social Contract Approach

    Bo Rothstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Teorell
Jan Teorell Stockholm University
Sören Holmberg
Sören Holmberg University of Gothenburg
Nicholas Charron
Nicholas Charron University of Gothenburg
Staffan Kumlin
Staffan Kumlin University of Oslo
Eric M. Uslaner
Eric M. Uslaner University of Maryland, College Park
Dietlind Stolle
Dietlind Stolle McGill University
Sven Steinmo
Sven Steinmo University of Colorado Boulder
Aksel Sundström
Aksel Sundström University of Gothenburg
János Kornai
János Kornai Corvinus University of Budapest
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Susan Rose-Ackerman Yale University

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