Naslov
Quality of government – Scandinavia vs. South East Europe

Autori
Kordić, Lana ; Mrnjavac, Željko ; Šimundić, Blanka ; Bejaković, Predrag

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Investigating spatial inequalities

Urednik/ci
Håkansson, Peter ; Bohman, Helena

Izdavač
Emerald Group Publishing

Grad
Bingley

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
89-105

ISBN
978-1-78973-942-8

Ključne riječi
Quality of government ; governance ; institutions ; region development

Sažetak
Many recent studies have highlighted the importance of quality of governance and institutions for economic performance. According to New Institutional Economics, the quality of governance and institutions is a fundamental precondition for sustained increases in prosperity, well-being, and territorial cohesion. The quality of governance influences people’s health, their access to basic services, social trust, and political legitimacy. Governance encompasses the traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised, and its performance can be measured. In this chapter we use the World Bank’s measure Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI). The aim of the chapter is to highlight the variation of the quality of government between regions of Scandinavia and South East Europe and to analyse recent changes in South East Europe. Not surprisingly, Scandinavian regions outperform all other EU regions in quality of government, and the situation has been stable over time. In South East Europe, the situation has improved, although at a slow pace. Whereas the rule of law and government efficiency seem to be steadily increasing, the fight against corruption has been less successful.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija

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