Determinantes de la calidad del gobiernouna exploración de gobiernos autonómicos españoles

  1. Fernando Jiménez Sánchez 1
  2. José Luis Ros-Medina 1
  3. Manuel Villoria Mendieta 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

  2. 2 Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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    Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01v5cv687

Journal:
REIS: Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas

ISSN: 0210-5233

Year of publication: 2022

Issue: 180

Pages: 65-84

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5477/CIS/REIS.180.65 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

According to numerous studies, quality of government (QG) is associated with levels of corruption and well-being in a society, but it is a concept without a clear or undisputed definition. For some, only government outputs should be considered, while for others, inputs, or how decisions are made, should also be considered. To contribute to clarifying the concept, we propose a new model of analysis that incorporates both inputs and outputs, as well as formal and informal institutions. The aim is to be able to operationalise this very abstract and debated concept by applying it empirically to the study of two Spanish regions, the Basque Country and Andalusia, with very different scores for quality of government as measured by outputs. Our results do not find the differences that would be expected between two regions with such different scores. One explanation for this is found in the excessive weight that measures of quality of government give to the perception of the quality of public services, a component that is greatly influenced by the level of social spending. We conclude that indices on quality of government have to adequately weight differences in levels of wealth among the societies being compared and consider existing inputs.

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