Growth and governance: Models, measures, and mechanisms
Growth and governance: Models, measures, and mechanisms
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2508.2007.00549.x
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发表时间：
2007-05-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Schrank, Andrew
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作者：
Kurtz, Marcus J.;Schrank, Andrew
学术界普遍认为，良好的治理（公共管理的质量）与经济发展相联系，但令人惊讶的是，这种观点几乎没有经过实证检验。我们通过问两个问题来研究这种关系：我们对我们的跨国善治措施有多大信心？增长-治理因果关系的经验基础有多坚实？我们的研究结果表明，占主导地位的治理措施是有问题的，遭受知觉偏见，逆向选择抽样，概念与经济政策选择的混淆。在有些问题的衡量标准范围内，有证据表明，有更多的理由相信，增长和发展会促进治理的改善，而不是相反。政策影响是深远的，因为国际组织和各国政府正开始将有问题的行政业绩衡量标准作为发展援助的条件。
The regnant scholarly consensus linking good governance-the quality of public administration-to economic development has undergone surprisingly little empirical scrutiny. We examine the relationship by asking two questions: How confident are we in our cross-national measures of good governance? How solid are the empirical foundations of the growth-governance causal linkage? Our results suggest that the dominant measures of governance are problematic, suffering from perceptual biases, adverse selection in sampling, and conceptual conflation with economic policy choices. Within the limits of somewhat problematic measures, the evidence suggests that there is far more reason to believe that growth and development spur improvements in governance than vice versa. The policy implications are profound, for international organizations and governments are beginning to condition developmental aid on problematic measures of administrative performance.