do more transparent government govern better

By Roumeen Islam. 2003

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The author explores the link between information flows and governance or institutional quality. Economic theory expounds on the importance of information on economic outcomes either through its direct effect on prices and quantities or through its effect on other factors such as institutions and the quality of governance. She shows that countries with better information flows also govern better. Two kinds of indicators are used to assess better information flows. One index is based on the existence of freedom of information laws. A second index called the"transparency"index measures the frequency with which economic data are published in countries around the world. Empirical analysis shows that countries which have better information flows as measured by both indicators have better quality governance.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Corruption, Democracy, Economic Freedom, and State Strength (2005, background): “Government intervention via regulations and licenses creates large bureaucracies and increases the incidence of corruption (Ali and Isse, 2003; Cokgezen, 2004; Islam, 2003).”
• Transparenting Transparency: Intial Empirics and Policy Applications (2005, unknown): “Similarly, but focusing specifically on economic transparency, Islam (2004) bases her transparency index on the timely availability of economic data, whereas the Open Budget Project defines budget transparency as public access to budget information, including publication of budget reports and effort”
• The institutional, economic and social determinants of local government transparency (2013, background): “For instance Islam (2004) focuses on the timely availability of economic data.”
• Breaking the resource curse: Transparency in the natural resource sector and the extractive industries transparency initiative (2014, unknown): “Additionally, Islam (2003) fi nds that countries with more information fl ows (i.e. higher transparency) also have higher quality of governance.”