The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 July 2021
- ISBN 9780198858218
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages880 pages
- Size 252x180x55 mm
- Weight 1626 g
- Language English 180
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Short description:
Corruption has become a central issue in current policy debates. This Handbook provides state of the art research on this important topic. It demonstrates the disastrous effects of high levels of corruption for most areas of human well-being and presents research results about strategies that can get corruption under control.
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Recent research demonstrates that the quality of public institutions is crucial for a number of important environmental, social, economic, and political outcomes, and thereby human well-being. The Quality of Government (QoG) approach directs attention to issues such as impartiality in the exercise of public power, professionalism in public service delivery, effective measures against corruption, and meritocracy instead of patronage and nepotism.
This Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of this rapidly expanding research field and also identifies viable avenues for future research. The initial chapters focus on theoretical approaches and debates, and the central question of how QoG can be measured. A second set of chapters examines the wealth of empirical research on how QoG relates to democratization, social trust and cohesion, ethnic diversity, happiness and human wellbeing, democratic accountability, economic growth and inequality, political legitimacy, environmental sustainability, gender equality, and the outbreak of civil conflicts. The remaining chapters turn to the perennial issue of which contextual factors and policy approaches—national, local, and international—have proven successful (and not so successful) for increasing QoG.
The Quality of Government approach both challenges and complements important strands of inquiry in the social sciences. For research about democratization, QoG adds the importance of taking state capacity into account. For economics, the QoG approach shows that in order to produce economic prosperity, markets need to be embedded in institutions with a certain set of qualities. For development studies, QoG emphasizes that issues relating to corruption are integral to understanding development writ large.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Quality of Government: Why - What - How
Part I: Theory and Conceptualization
Quality of Government: Theory and Conceptualization
The Universalization of Ethical Universalism
'Quality of Government': A Philosophical Assessment
Shadow Elites: Beyond Institutional Corruption Theory and Ill-conceived Anti-Corruption Regimes. Toward A New Research Agenda
Part II: Data and methodological Approaches
Measuring the Unmeasurable? Taking Stock of QoG Measures
Down-To-Earth: What Can We Learn From Local Case Studies?
What We Can Learn About Corruption From Historical Case Studies?
The Ethnographic Study of Corruption
Part III: Democracy, Accountability, and Participation
Democracy and the Quality of Government
Corruption Voting and Electoral Accountability
Quality of Government and Political Support
Trust, Populism, and the Quality of Government
Social Accountability and Quality of Government: Effectiveness and Recursive Effects
Civil Society Against Corruption
Electoral Rules and Corruption: A Meta-Analysis
Part IV: Sustainability and Development
Inequality and Corruption
The Quality of Government and Economic Growth
Economic Diversification, Homogeneity of Interests and the Impartiality of Government
Quality of Government and Environmental Sustainability
Inequality, Education, and Corruption
Part V: International Policies and Global Strategies
Foreign Aid and Quality of Government
Corruption, Elites and Power: An Overview of International Policy Efforts to Improve the Quality of Government
International Efforts to Combat Corruption
Controlling Corruption: Institutional Strategies
Part VI: Diversity, Social Cohesion, and Well-Being
Quality of Government and Social Trust
Gender, Gender Equality, and Corruption: A Review of Theory and Evidence
Bringing Politics Back In: Ethnic Fractionalization, Quality of Government, and Public Goods Provision Revisited
Happiness and the Quality of Government
Governance Beyond the State: Social Institutions and Service Delivery
Part VII: State Structure and Policy
Bureaucracy and Government Quality
Pockets of Effectiveness and Islands of Integrity: Variation in Quality of Government Within Central State Administrations
Improving Governance in Tightly Controlled Societies: The Importance of Transformational Leadership
Taxation and the Quality of Government
Quality of Government and Welfare State Support
Part VIII: State Building and Breakdown
The Challenge of State Building in Historical Perspective: How States are Built Critically Affects Political Development and Quality of Government
State Capacity, Quality of Government, Sequencing and Development Outcomes
The Quality of Government and Civil Conflict
Organized Crime and the Quality of Government
