Quality of Government: What You Get

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Provision of electricity to African households: The importance of democracy and institutional quality (2015, background): “…fair and predictable rules facilitate economic and social interactions), and the presence or absence of corruption, conventionally defined as the exercise of public power for private gain (Gupta et al., 2000; Holmberg et al., 2009; Kaufmann and Kraay, 2002; Mauro, 1998; North, 1990; Nye, 1967).”
Anti-corruption: the indirect ‘big bang’ approach (2011, positive): “This is peculiar since there is by now quite compelling empirical support for claiming that the quality of a country's political institutions determines its economic and social development ( Acemoglu and Robinson, 2008 ; Holmberg et al , 2009 ; Klitgaard, 1997 ; Rose-Ackerman, 2004 ).”
Mapping the Regional Divide in Europe: A Measure for Assessing Quality of Government in 206 European Regions (2014, background): “A wealth of research in development economics, comparative politics, and public administration, among others, has demonstrated that dysfunctional and corrupt states are often systematically plagued by a wide range of economic and social problems (Kaufmann et al. 2009; Rothstein and Teorell 2008; Hol”
Does foreign aid harm political institutions (2015, background): “Nonetheless, we take comfort from other analysts who note a correlation across many different facets of government quality (Holmberg et al., 2009).”