The institute was founded by Professors Bo Rothstein and Sören Holmberg in 2004 and is partly financed by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
The main objective the QoG Institute´s research is to address the theoretical and empirical problem of how political institutions of high quality can be created and maintained.
The compilation datasets are drawn from more than one hundred different sources that deal with topics related to the concepts of Quality of Government.
The original datasets are created by the QoG researchers and focus on concepts related to quality of government, transparency and public administration.
The original datasets also includes the European Quality of Government Index(EQI), which contains information on sub-national governance in Europe from three rounds of a large, pan-European survey on citizen perceptions and experiences with public services.