N Charron
Biographic Data
| ID | 17849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Charron |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Charron |
| SIGNATURE | CHARRON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1386-0782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 437 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Losing elections, losing trust? A quasi-experimental investigation of the winner-loser gap on political trust
Voters’ experiences of winning or losing elections significantly influence their attitudes, particularly satisfaction with democracy, while other outcomes such as trust are less studied. Additionally, studies often rely on observational data, limiting causal conclusions about effects. We make three key contributions to this literature. First, we use a quasi-experimental design based on the implementation of the European Quality of Government Inde…
What candidate will fight corruption? Gender and anti-corruption stereotypes across European countries
What candidates do voters perceive as best to combat corruption? While recent studies suggest that parties recruit women in order to restore legitimacy, we know less about whether voters believe that women candidates are better equipped than male candidates to fight corruption. This study suggests that women mayors are seen as more likely to fight corruption, yet that the credibility of both male and female politicians increases if they are ascri…
Is there a gender youth gap in far-right voting and cultural attitudes
Young men, gendered labour market competition, and opposition to gender equality policy across 27 EU countries
Will Women’s Representation Reduce Bribery? Trends in Corruption and Public Service Delivery Across European Regions
While a growing body of work suggests that women representatives are less likely to be involved in corruption scandals, we know less about if changes in representation patterns also have implications for citizens’ first-hand experiences with corruption in public service delivery. This study suggests that women elected representatives reduce street level bribery, in particular when the share of women increases in contexts where relatively few wome…
Europe around the corner? How border proximity and quality of government explains European identity
Do citizens that live close to the border of another European country feel more European? We suggest that border proximity affects European identity formation, but that the positive effect of border proximity is confined largely to areas where citizens live close to regions with better quality of government and lower levels of corruption. Using our newly collected individual level and post-coded data from the most recent wave of the European Qual…
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states
Building on research on cultural threat‐induced polarization, we investigate the effect of the individual‐level salience of cultural threats on polarization between social liberals and conservatives. In a unique survey experiment conducted with 129,000 respondents nested in 208 regions in 27 European Union (EU) member states, we manipulate the presence of two cultural threats, women's rights, and refugee immigration, to test their polarizing effe…
Uncooperative society, uncooperative politics or both? Trust, polarization, populism and Covid‐19 deaths across European regions
Why have some territories performed better than others in the fight against COVID‐19? This paper uses a novel dataset on excess mortality, trust and political polarization for 165 European regions to explore the role of social and political divisions in the remarkable regional differences in excess mortality during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic. First, we investigate whether regions characterized by a low social and political trust witn…
Inclusive candidate selection and corruption: Evidence from Spanish regions
High corruption perceptions among voters have been shown to have dire consequences for political participation, trust in institutions and ability to solve collective action problems. Research on corruption focussed on macro- and micro-level explanations to explain persistent corruption in developed countries. This article adds a new meso-level variable to the picture: party primaries. While until recently selection of candidates was the privilege…
Electoral competition, political parties and clientelism: Evidence from local elections in South Africa
How does electoral competition shape parties’ use of clientelist strategies during elections? In this article, we present a theoretical framework which suggests that in contexts where electoral clientelism is present but not ubiquitous, clientelist strategies take a distinctive form by being more considered and rationally targeted at individuals and areas that maximize the value of the transaction for the clientelist party. Using individual-level…
It's the quality of government stupid' explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election
One of the most important transformations of European politics in recent decades is the rapid expansion of the share of population that vote for parties characterized as populist radical right (PRR) parties. This research note suggests that declining quality of government increases support for populist radical right parties. Using the latest rounds of the European Quality of Government Index (EQI) survey data that sampled at the NUTS 2 regional l…
Female representation and electoral clientelism: New insights from South African municipal electionss
Do citizens experience less electoral clientelism in polities with more elected female representatives? The current literature is remarkably silent on the role of gender and female political representation for electoral clientelism. Due to gender differences in issue priorities, targeted constituent groups, networks and resources, we argue that voters experience less clientelism in municipalities with a higher proportion of female politicians bec…
Who perceives women's rights as threatening to men and boys? Explaining modern sexism among young men in Europe
While Western democracies have become increasingly gender-equal over the past decades, recent research documents a backlash against gender equality in the form of rising modern sexism. Previous research shows that modern sexism predicts political attitudes and voting behavior that are detrimental to women's empowerment and liberalism. Yet, we know little about which factors explain modern sexist attitudes and how they operate across multiple coun…
Stand together or alone? Public support for European economic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
In response to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Union has launched one of the largest assistance packages in EU history, where all 27 EU member states are asked to jointly borrow 500 billion Euros to finance grants to areas hardest hit by the crises. Despite the unprecedented size of this package, we know less about citizens' support for such a common EU response to the crises. Using unique data from a representative survey…
What is the Influence of News Media on People's Perception of Corruption? Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches
Does the source of one's news media have a systematic effect on one's perception of political corruption? While numerous studies have investigated the extent to which media affects trust in institutions, or the polarization of political values, this study shifts the focus on to how one's media source conceived here as social media versus traditional media affects the perception of corruption in 2 ways. First, we hypothesize that citizens who cons…
Do Men and Women Perceive Corruption Differently? Gender Differences in Perception of Need and Greed Corruption
Do men and women perceive corruption differently? While evidence suggest that there is a strong link between gender and corruption, and that gender differences can at least partly be derived from men and women having different attitudes towards corruption, most studies to date focus on gender differences in perceptions of the scale or severity of the corruption in general, rather than its different forms. However, we argue that factors such as ro…
In God we Trust? Identity, Institutions and International Solidarity in Europe
Several recent studies show that citizens' identification with Europe is one of the most important determinants of support for EU integration, that may also hold the key to greater economic solidarity and support for international redistribution. This article proposes a multidimensional conception of European identity, and that citizens' support for redistribution within the EU is highly contingent not only on the level of identification with Eur…
Accountable or Untouchable? Electoral accountability in Romanian local elections
Measuring quality of government in EU regions across space and time
Exclusion or interests? Why females in elected office reduce petty and grand corruption
Disappointed by the numerous failures of anticorruption reforms, international organisations, scholars and policy makers increasingly place their hopes on measures aimed at enhancing gender equality and in particular increasing the inclusion of female representatives in elected assemblies. Yet most studies to date focus on aggregate measures of corruption and fail to explain why the correlation between women's representation and levels of corrupt…
Regional Governance Matters: Quality of Government within European Union Member States
Charron N., Dijkstra L. and Lapuente V. Regional governance matters: quality of government within European Union member states, Regional Studies. This study presents novel data (European QoG Index – EQI) on the ‘quality of government’ (QoG) – understood as low corruption, impartial public services and rule of law – for national and sub-national levels in twenty-seven European Union countries. The EQI shows notable within-country variations: while…
Why Do Some Regions in Europe Have a Higher Quality of Government
While most of the quantitative literature on quality of government has focused on national differences, subnational variation has been neglected, mainly due to the lack of data. This study explores subnational divergences in quality of government (understood as control of corruption, impartial treatment of citizens, and government effectiveness) using newly created subnational data including over 70 European regions. It addresses the institutiona…
Impartiality, friendship-networks and voting behavior: Evidence from voting patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest
Does democracy produce quality of government
This article analyses the effects of political regimes over state capacity or the quality of government (QoG): Do democratic states perform better than authoritarian ones? Previous studies point to a nonlinear relationship between democracy and government quality. It is argued here that QoG is a function of both forces of supply (leaders who have the power to make reforms) and demand (citizens' desire for mid‐ to long‐term investments over short‐…
Government Quality and Vertical Power-Sharing in Fractionalized States
Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that ethno-linguistic diversity has a negative relationship with quality of government (QoG). In response to this challenge, states have two broad options with respect to vertical power-sharing. One, they can attempt to integrate various factions by adopting a unitary, centralized constitution. Two, they can accommodate minority groups with ethno-federalism, giving them a degree of regional autonomy. Usi…
Regional Governance Matters: Quality of Government within European Union Member States
Charron N., Dijkstra L. and Lapuente V. Regional governance matters: quality of government within European Union member states, Regional Studies. This study presents novel data (European QoG Index – EQI) on the ‘quality of government’ (QoG) – understood as low corruption, impartial public services and rule of law – for national and sub-national levels in twenty-seven European Union countries. The EQI shows notable within-country variations: while…
Does democracy produce quality of government
This article analyses the effects of political regimes over state capacity or the quality of government (QoG): Do democratic states perform better than authoritarian ones? Previous studies point to a nonlinear relationship between democracy and government quality. It is argued here that QoG is a function of both forces of supply (leaders who have the power to make reforms) and demand (citizens' desire for mid‐ to long‐term investments over short‐…
Why Do Some Regions in Europe Have a Higher Quality of Government
While most of the quantitative literature on quality of government has focused on national differences, subnational variation has been neglected, mainly due to the lack of data. This study explores subnational divergences in quality of government (understood as control of corruption, impartial treatment of citizens, and government effectiveness) using newly created subnational data including over 70 European regions. It addresses the institutiona…
Exclusion or interests? Why females in elected office reduce petty and grand corruption
Disappointed by the numerous failures of anticorruption reforms, international organisations, scholars and policy makers increasingly place their hopes on measures aimed at enhancing gender equality and in particular increasing the inclusion of female representatives in elected assemblies. Yet most studies to date focus on aggregate measures of corruption and fail to explain why the correlation between women's representation and levels of corrupt…
Measuring quality of government in EU regions across space and time
Uncooperative society, uncooperative politics or both? Trust, polarization, populism and Covid‐19 deaths across European regions
Why have some territories performed better than others in the fight against COVID‐19? This paper uses a novel dataset on excess mortality, trust and political polarization for 165 European regions to explore the role of social and political divisions in the remarkable regional differences in excess mortality during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic. First, we investigate whether regions characterized by a low social and political trust witn…
Who perceives women's rights as threatening to men and boys? Explaining modern sexism among young men in Europe
While Western democracies have become increasingly gender-equal over the past decades, recent research documents a backlash against gender equality in the form of rising modern sexism. Previous research shows that modern sexism predicts political attitudes and voting behavior that are detrimental to women's empowerment and liberalism. Yet, we know little about which factors explain modern sexist attitudes and how they operate across multiple coun…
What is the Influence of News Media on People's Perception of Corruption? Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches
Does the source of one's news media have a systematic effect on one's perception of political corruption? While numerous studies have investigated the extent to which media affects trust in institutions, or the polarization of political values, this study shifts the focus on to how one's media source conceived here as social media versus traditional media affects the perception of corruption in 2 ways. First, we hypothesize that citizens who cons…
Is there a gender youth gap in far-right voting and cultural attitudes
Government Quality and Vertical Power-Sharing in Fractionalized States
Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that ethno-linguistic diversity has a negative relationship with quality of government (QoG). In response to this challenge, states have two broad options with respect to vertical power-sharing. One, they can attempt to integrate various factions by adopting a unitary, centralized constitution. Two, they can accommodate minority groups with ethno-federalism, giving them a degree of regional autonomy. Usi…
Stand together or alone? Public support for European economic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
In response to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Union has launched one of the largest assistance packages in EU history, where all 27 EU member states are asked to jointly borrow 500 billion Euros to finance grants to areas hardest hit by the crises. Despite the unprecedented size of this package, we know less about citizens' support for such a common EU response to the crises. Using unique data from a representative survey…
In God we Trust? Identity, Institutions and International Solidarity in Europe
Several recent studies show that citizens' identification with Europe is one of the most important determinants of support for EU integration, that may also hold the key to greater economic solidarity and support for international redistribution. This article proposes a multidimensional conception of European identity, and that citizens' support for redistribution within the EU is highly contingent not only on the level of identification with Eur…
Impartiality, friendship-networks and voting behavior: Evidence from voting patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest
Electoral competition, political parties and clientelism: Evidence from local elections in South Africa
How does electoral competition shape parties’ use of clientelist strategies during elections? In this article, we present a theoretical framework which suggests that in contexts where electoral clientelism is present but not ubiquitous, clientelist strategies take a distinctive form by being more considered and rationally targeted at individuals and areas that maximize the value of the transaction for the clientelist party. Using individual-level…
Accountable or Untouchable? Electoral accountability in Romanian local elections
Do Men and Women Perceive Corruption Differently? Gender Differences in Perception of Need and Greed Corruption
Do men and women perceive corruption differently? While evidence suggest that there is a strong link between gender and corruption, and that gender differences can at least partly be derived from men and women having different attitudes towards corruption, most studies to date focus on gender differences in perceptions of the scale or severity of the corruption in general, rather than its different forms. However, we argue that factors such as ro…
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states
Building on research on cultural threat‐induced polarization, we investigate the effect of the individual‐level salience of cultural threats on polarization between social liberals and conservatives. In a unique survey experiment conducted with 129,000 respondents nested in 208 regions in 27 European Union (EU) member states, we manipulate the presence of two cultural threats, women's rights, and refugee immigration, to test their polarizing effe…
Inclusive candidate selection and corruption: Evidence from Spanish regions
High corruption perceptions among voters have been shown to have dire consequences for political participation, trust in institutions and ability to solve collective action problems. Research on corruption focussed on macro- and micro-level explanations to explain persistent corruption in developed countries. This article adds a new meso-level variable to the picture: party primaries. While until recently selection of candidates was the privilege…
What candidate will fight corruption? Gender and anti-corruption stereotypes across European countries
What candidates do voters perceive as best to combat corruption? While recent studies suggest that parties recruit women in order to restore legitimacy, we know less about whether voters believe that women candidates are better equipped than male candidates to fight corruption. This study suggests that women mayors are seen as more likely to fight corruption, yet that the credibility of both male and female politicians increases if they are ascri…
Young men, gendered labour market competition, and opposition to gender equality policy across 27 EU countries
Will Women’s Representation Reduce Bribery? Trends in Corruption and Public Service Delivery Across European Regions
While a growing body of work suggests that women representatives are less likely to be involved in corruption scandals, we know less about if changes in representation patterns also have implications for citizens’ first-hand experiences with corruption in public service delivery. This study suggests that women elected representatives reduce street level bribery, in particular when the share of women increases in contexts where relatively few wome…
Europe around the corner? How border proximity and quality of government explains European identity
Do citizens that live close to the border of another European country feel more European? We suggest that border proximity affects European identity formation, but that the positive effect of border proximity is confined largely to areas where citizens live close to regions with better quality of government and lower levels of corruption. Using our newly collected individual level and post-coded data from the most recent wave of the European Qual…
It's the quality of government stupid' explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election
One of the most important transformations of European politics in recent decades is the rapid expansion of the share of population that vote for parties characterized as populist radical right (PRR) parties. This research note suggests that declining quality of government increases support for populist radical right parties. Using the latest rounds of the European Quality of Government Index (EQI) survey data that sampled at the NUTS 2 regional l…
Female representation and electoral clientelism: New insights from South African municipal electionss
Do citizens experience less electoral clientelism in polities with more elected female representatives? The current literature is remarkably silent on the role of gender and female political representation for electoral clientelism. Due to gender differences in issue priorities, targeted constituent groups, networks and resources, we argue that voters experience less clientelism in municipalities with a higher proportion of female politicians bec…
Government Quality and Vertical Power-Sharing in Fractionalized States
Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that ethno-linguistic diversity has a negative relationship with quality of government (QoG). In response to this challenge, states have two broad options with respect to vertical power-sharing. One, they can attempt to integrate various factions by adopting a unitary, centralized constitution. Two, they can accommodate minority groups with ethno-federalism, giving them a degree of regional autonomy. Usi…
Does democracy produce quality of government
This article analyses the effects of political regimes over state capacity or the quality of government (QoG): Do democratic states perform better than authoritarian ones? Previous studies point to a nonlinear relationship between democracy and government quality. It is argued here that QoG is a function of both forces of supply (leaders who have the power to make reforms) and demand (citizens' desire for mid‐ to long‐term investments over short‐…
Regional Governance Matters: Quality of Government within European Union Member States
Charron N., Dijkstra L. and Lapuente V. Regional governance matters: quality of government within European Union member states, Regional Studies. This study presents novel data (European QoG Index – EQI) on the ‘quality of government’ (QoG) – understood as low corruption, impartial public services and rule of law – for national and sub-national levels in twenty-seven European Union countries. The EQI shows notable within-country variations: while…
Why Do Some Regions in Europe Have a Higher Quality of Government
While most of the quantitative literature on quality of government has focused on national differences, subnational variation has been neglected, mainly due to the lack of data. This study explores subnational divergences in quality of government (understood as control of corruption, impartial treatment of citizens, and government effectiveness) using newly created subnational data including over 70 European regions. It addresses the institutiona…
Impartiality, friendship-networks and voting behavior: Evidence from voting patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest
Measuring quality of government in EU regions across space and time
Exclusion or interests? Why females in elected office reduce petty and grand corruption
Disappointed by the numerous failures of anticorruption reforms, international organisations, scholars and policy makers increasingly place their hopes on measures aimed at enhancing gender equality and in particular increasing the inclusion of female representatives in elected assemblies. Yet most studies to date focus on aggregate measures of corruption and fail to explain why the correlation between women's representation and levels of corrupt…
Do Men and Women Perceive Corruption Differently? Gender Differences in Perception of Need and Greed Corruption
Do men and women perceive corruption differently? While evidence suggest that there is a strong link between gender and corruption, and that gender differences can at least partly be derived from men and women having different attitudes towards corruption, most studies to date focus on gender differences in perceptions of the scale or severity of the corruption in general, rather than its different forms. However, we argue that factors such as ro…
In God we Trust? Identity, Institutions and International Solidarity in Europe
Several recent studies show that citizens' identification with Europe is one of the most important determinants of support for EU integration, that may also hold the key to greater economic solidarity and support for international redistribution. This article proposes a multidimensional conception of European identity, and that citizens' support for redistribution within the EU is highly contingent not only on the level of identification with Eur…
Accountable or Untouchable? Electoral accountability in Romanian local elections
Stand together or alone? Public support for European economic solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
In response to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Union has launched one of the largest assistance packages in EU history, where all 27 EU member states are asked to jointly borrow 500 billion Euros to finance grants to areas hardest hit by the crises. Despite the unprecedented size of this package, we know less about citizens' support for such a common EU response to the crises. Using unique data from a representative survey…
What is the Influence of News Media on People's Perception of Corruption? Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches
Does the source of one's news media have a systematic effect on one's perception of political corruption? While numerous studies have investigated the extent to which media affects trust in institutions, or the polarization of political values, this study shifts the focus on to how one's media source conceived here as social media versus traditional media affects the perception of corruption in 2 ways. First, we hypothesize that citizens who cons…
Who perceives women's rights as threatening to men and boys? Explaining modern sexism among young men in Europe
While Western democracies have become increasingly gender-equal over the past decades, recent research documents a backlash against gender equality in the form of rising modern sexism. Previous research shows that modern sexism predicts political attitudes and voting behavior that are detrimental to women's empowerment and liberalism. Yet, we know little about which factors explain modern sexist attitudes and how they operate across multiple coun…
Uncooperative society, uncooperative politics or both? Trust, polarization, populism and Covid‐19 deaths across European regions
Why have some territories performed better than others in the fight against COVID‐19? This paper uses a novel dataset on excess mortality, trust and political polarization for 165 European regions to explore the role of social and political divisions in the remarkable regional differences in excess mortality during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic. First, we investigate whether regions characterized by a low social and political trust witn…
Inclusive candidate selection and corruption: Evidence from Spanish regions
High corruption perceptions among voters have been shown to have dire consequences for political participation, trust in institutions and ability to solve collective action problems. Research on corruption focussed on macro- and micro-level explanations to explain persistent corruption in developed countries. This article adds a new meso-level variable to the picture: party primaries. While until recently selection of candidates was the privilege…
Electoral competition, political parties and clientelism: Evidence from local elections in South Africa
How does electoral competition shape parties’ use of clientelist strategies during elections? In this article, we present a theoretical framework which suggests that in contexts where electoral clientelism is present but not ubiquitous, clientelist strategies take a distinctive form by being more considered and rationally targeted at individuals and areas that maximize the value of the transaction for the clientelist party. Using individual-level…
It's the quality of government stupid' explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election
One of the most important transformations of European politics in recent decades is the rapid expansion of the share of population that vote for parties characterized as populist radical right (PRR) parties. This research note suggests that declining quality of government increases support for populist radical right parties. Using the latest rounds of the European Quality of Government Index (EQI) survey data that sampled at the NUTS 2 regional l…
Female representation and electoral clientelism: New insights from South African municipal electionss
Do citizens experience less electoral clientelism in polities with more elected female representatives? The current literature is remarkably silent on the role of gender and female political representation for electoral clientelism. Due to gender differences in issue priorities, targeted constituent groups, networks and resources, we argue that voters experience less clientelism in municipalities with a higher proportion of female politicians bec…
Will Women’s Representation Reduce Bribery? Trends in Corruption and Public Service Delivery Across European Regions
While a growing body of work suggests that women representatives are less likely to be involved in corruption scandals, we know less about if changes in representation patterns also have implications for citizens’ first-hand experiences with corruption in public service delivery. This study suggests that women elected representatives reduce street level bribery, in particular when the share of women increases in contexts where relatively few wome…
Europe around the corner? How border proximity and quality of government explains European identity
Do citizens that live close to the border of another European country feel more European? We suggest that border proximity affects European identity formation, but that the positive effect of border proximity is confined largely to areas where citizens live close to regions with better quality of government and lower levels of corruption. Using our newly collected individual level and post-coded data from the most recent wave of the European Qual…
For every action a reaction? The polarizing effects of women's rights and refugee immigration: A survey experiment in 27 EU member states
Building on research on cultural threat‐induced polarization, we investigate the effect of the individual‐level salience of cultural threats on polarization between social liberals and conservatives. In a unique survey experiment conducted with 129,000 respondents nested in 208 regions in 27 European Union (EU) member states, we manipulate the presence of two cultural threats, women's rights, and refugee immigration, to test their polarizing effe…
What candidate will fight corruption? Gender and anti-corruption stereotypes across European countries
What candidates do voters perceive as best to combat corruption? While recent studies suggest that parties recruit women in order to restore legitimacy, we know less about whether voters believe that women candidates are better equipped than male candidates to fight corruption. This study suggests that women mayors are seen as more likely to fight corruption, yet that the credibility of both male and female politicians increases if they are ascri…
Is there a gender youth gap in far-right voting and cultural attitudes
Young men, gendered labour market competition, and opposition to gender equality policy across 27 EU countries
Losing elections, losing trust? A quasi-experimental investigation of the winner-loser gap on political trust
Voters’ experiences of winning or losing elections significantly influence their attitudes, particularly satisfaction with democracy, while other outcomes such as trust are less studied. Additionally, studies often rely on observational data, limiting causal conclusions about effects. We make three key contributions to this literature. First, we use a quasi-experimental design based on the implementation of the European Quality of Government Inde…
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