Quality of Government
In 2010 the European comissioned a report on the
quality of government by region in Europe . The report was prepared by the research team at the
Quality of Government Institute of University of Gothenburg in Sweden
The primary task of this project was to create data
for quality of government (QoG). Although a recent proliferation of QoG data
have emerged since the mid 1990s, no quantification of the quality of
government has been created or used in this process so far at the regional
level. Based on the combination of national level international expert
assessments from the World Bank and the largest QoG survey to date to focus on
regional variation, they constructed the most complete quantitative estimates
of QoG variation for 172 EU regions within 18 countries.
This study is important because numerous academic
studies and statements by international organizations, have emphasized that
only with a high quality of government can a country reap the benefits of
economic growth and social development and foster economic development.
QoG was disaggregated into the following categories
or pillars:
1) ‘corruption’,
2) ‘rule of law’,
3) ‘bureaucratic effectiveness’
4) ‘government voice and accountability’/ or
‘strength of democratic and electoral
institutions’
The general view is the following
One can see that, as expected, northern Europe
is the most developed in QoG and not surprisingly Italy
and East Europe are lagging behind.
If the EU countries had to be clustered in three
groups the result would be this.
By pillars the results are the following:
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