The quality of government
The quality of government
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DOI：
10.1093/jleo/15.1.222
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发表时间：
1999-04-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Vishny, R
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作者：
La Porta, R;Lopez-De-Silanes, F;Vishny, R
我们在大量国家的横截面调查了政府质量的决定因素。我们使用政府干预、公共部门效率、公共产品提供、政府规模和政治自由等指标来评估政府绩效。我们发现，贫穷、靠近赤道、民族语言异质、使用法国法律或社会主义法律，或天主教徒或穆斯林比例较高的国家，政府表现较差。我们还发现，规模越大的政府往往表现越好。（合理的）外生历史因素在解释各国政府绩效差异方面的重要性，揭示了有关制度的经济、政治和文化理论。
We investigate empirically the determinants of the quality of governments in a large cross-section of countries. We assess government performance using measures of government intervention, public sector efficiency, public good provision, size of government, and political freedom. We find that countries that are poor, close to the equator, ethnolinguistically heterogeneous, use French or socialist laws, or have high proportions of Catholics or Muslims exhibit inferior government performance. We also find that the larger governments tend to be the better performing ones. The importance of (reasonably) exogenous historical factors in explaining the variation in government performance across countries sheds light on the economic, political, and cultural theories of institutions.