Regimes and Industrialization

Gerring, John; Gjerløw, Haakon; Knutsen, Carl Henrik

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“…High democratic accountability could influence public goods provision directly, as is sometimes assumed, 8 or it could influence public goods provision in a mediated fashion, through state capacity. By the same token, low democratic accountability could allow some countries to grow faster, rendering the provision of public goods, at least temporarily, more instead of less likely (Gerring et al, 2020). The prime example for this causal pathway is China, as Yang reviews in her article, ‘Lessons and Challenges of China's State‐Led and Party‐Dominated Governance Model,’ in this special issue.…”

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Introducing the Berggruen Governance Index I: Conceptual and methodological framework

Anheier,

Lang,

Knudsen

2023

Global Policy

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Governance is at the heart of how well governments meet public needs and manage a wide array of common problems. Why do some countries perform poorly in delivering healthcare, reducing inequality, providing a clean environment or delivering some other public good to their populations even while they have the resources to do so? Does the capacity of states to provide the basics for societies to thrive depend on forms of democratic accountability that represents different interests, or are systems under technocratic control that impose solutions and disregard, even suppress, many voices better at meeting public needs? Existing indices do not systematically examine the relationship between the components that contribute to governance performance. In our understanding of governance, depicted as the Governance Triangle, public goods provision is a function of state capacity and accountability. Rather than focusing on a single composite performance measure, the Berggruen Governance Index examines the interactions among these dimensions. We find that the key to good governance is achieving a balance among the three dimensions on an upward and sustainable trajectory. This article introduces the Index and the conceptual and methodological framework that underpins it and then outlines the content of this special issue.

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