Voice or Public Sector Management? An Empirical Investigation of Determinants of Public Sector Performance based on a Survey of Public Officials

Kaufmann, Daniel; Mehrez, Gil; Gurgur, Tugrul

doi:10.2139/ssrn.316865

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“…Some research has focused specifically on the relationship between transparency and governance, studying the role of information disclosure in shaping a better government, improving the design of public policy (help identifying goals), or reducing corruption [43][44][45][46][47].…”

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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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Section: Transparencymentioning

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“…However, as Kaufmann et al . note, many existing recommendations for anti‐corruption strategies are questionable because they are based on cross‐national survey data on perceptions of corruption (Kaufmann et al . 2002).…”

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Is transparency an effective anti-corruption strategy? Evidence from a field experiment in India

Peisakhin

Pinto

2010

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Can freedom of information laws be harnessed by underprivileged members of society and used to obtain greater access to basic public goods that are otherwise attainable only through bribery? Drawing on a field experiment on access to ration cards among New Delhi's slum dwellers, we demonstrate that India's recently adopted freedom of information law is almost as effective as bribery in helping the poor to secure access to a basic public service. We find support for the theoretical proposition that greater transparency and voice lowers corruption even in highly hierarchical and unequal societies.

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“…Thus, patronage can undermine the democratic functioning of the state because it violates impartiality, which is a guiding and legitimizing norm of democracy (Rothstein and Teorell 2008: 170). Moreover, we have good reason to believe that public sector performance suffers under high politicization (Kaufmann et al 2002). When comparing the potential implications of patronage with those of decentralization that I have discussed in this section, we get a very ambiguous picture of the positive and negative aspects of decentralization.…”

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Political Elites and Decentralization Reforms in the Post-Socialist Balkans

Kleibrink¹

2015

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South-East Europe presents a compelling agenda: a region that has challenged European identities, values and interests like no other at formative periods of modern history, and is now undergoing a set of complex transitions. It is a region made up of new and old European Union member states, as well as aspiring ones; early 'democratising' states and new post-communist regimes; states undergoing liberalizing economic reforms, partially inspired by external forces, whilst coping with their own embedded nationalisms; and states obliged to respond to new and recurring issues of security, identity, well-being, social integration, faith and secularization.This series examines issues of inheritance and adaptation. The disciplinary reach incorporates politics and international relations, modern history, economics and political economy and sociology. It links the study of South-East Europe across a number of social sciences to European issues of democratization and economic reform in the post-transition age. It addresses ideas as well as institutions, policies as well as processes. It will include studies of the domestic and foreign policies of single states, relations between states and peoples in the region, and between the region and beyond. The EU is an obvious reference point for current research on South-East Europe, but this series also highlights the importance of South-East Europe in its eastern context: the Caucuses, the Black Sea and the Middle East.

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Voice or Public Sector Management? An Empirical Investigation of Determinants of Public Sector Performance based on a Survey of Public Officials

Abstract: Gurgur (2019) Voice or public sector management? An empirical investigation of determinants of public sector performance based on a survey of public officials,

Cited by 19 publications

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How Does Good Governance Relate to Quality of Life?

How Does Good Governance Relate to Quality of Life?

Is transparency an effective anti-corruption strategy? Evidence from a field experiment in India

Political Elites and Decentralization Reforms in the Post-Socialist Balkans

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