Good Governance Means Performance and Results

Rotberg, Robert I.

doi:10.1111/gove.12084

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“…Due to its comprehensive and wide coverage of data, the Legatum Prosperity Index gathered notable attention across the academia (e.g. Fox 2012;Rotberg 2014). In addition, we draw on a sub-index presented by Freedom House.…”

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Freedom and innovation: a country and state level analysis

Lehmann

Seitz

2016

J Technol Transf

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Research underlines the importance of socio-cultural factors when establishing a supportive environment for innovation and entrepreneurship growth. Scholars discuss different aspects, ranging from cultural attitudes and religious norms, to aspects of tolerance and social freedom. Following on research tradition, this paper analyzes the freedominnovation relationship using a hand collected data set of 57 countries and the 50 U.S. states over a 3 year period. We argue and test whether the slope of the freedom-innovation link is shaped by and trades-off the costs and benefits of either weak or strong social ties within a country. Our empirical findings support a positive relationship between the freedom-innovativeness-slope, but not a negative or inverted U-shaped relationship.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Freedom and innovation: a country and state level analysis

Lehmann

Seitz

2016

J Technol Transf

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“…Citizens and other stakeholders are interested in measuring the success of public interventions in terms of the changes they bring in the quality of life, rather than by the quality of the activities themselves. However, as Rotberg [9] indicates, governance is tangible, and measuring performance can best be done by using publicly available objective data.…”

Section: Quality Of Life (Qol) As a Measure Of Social Progress In Munmentioning

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How Does Good Governance Relate to Quality of Life?

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This paper explores the relationship between the practices of good governance and the quality of life at the municipal level in Spain. A composite indicator of the quality of life of 393 Spanish municipalities in 2011 is estimated using varied statistical information. For this purpose, we follow a benefit of the doubt approach based on Data Envelopment Analysis. Then three dimensions of good governance are considered: transparency, participation, and accountability. The results show a significant positive relationship between quality of life and participation and financial accountability. However, transparency seems to be unrelated to quality of life.

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“…The former often determine the quality of the design effort and impact the design itself while the latter generate contexts in which processes such as patching and stretching unfold. In a more non-design world where the intention to instrumentally design is lacking, constraints on outcomes also exist as do different processes which vary in their distance from the design ideal of public value and service and improving the public good through better information and knowledge utilization and improved management efforts (Holmberg & Rothstein, 2012;Rotberg, 2014).…”

Section: Conclusion: Distinguishing Design From Non-design-based Formmentioning

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Policy Design and Non-Design: Towards a Spectrum of Policy Formulation Types

Howlett

Mukherjee

2014

SSRN Journal

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Public policies are the result of efforts made by governments to alter aspects of behaviour-both that of their own agents and of society at large-in order to carry out some end or purpose. They are comprised of arrangements of policy goals and policy means matched through some decision-making process. These policy-making efforts can be more, or less, systematic in attempting to match ends and means in a logical fashion or can result from much less systematic processes. "Policy design" implies a knowledge-based process in which the choice of means or mechanisms through which policy goals are given effect follows a logical process of inference from known or learned relationships between means and outcomes. This includes both design in which means are selected in accordance with experience and knowledge and that in which principles and relationships are incorrectly or only partially articulated or understood. Policy decisions can be careful and deliberate in attempting to best resolve a problem or can be highly contingent and driven by situational logics. Decisions stemming from bargaining or opportunism can also be distinguished from those which result from careful analysis and assessment. This article considers both modes and formulates a spectrum of policy formulation types between "design" and "non-design" which helps clarify the nature of each type and the likelihood of each unfolding.

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Good Governance Means Performance and Results

Cited by 165 publications

References 7 publications

Freedom and innovation: a country and state level analysis

Freedom and innovation: a country and state level analysis

How Does Good Governance Relate to Quality of Life?

Policy Design and Non-Design: Towards a Spectrum of Policy Formulation Types

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