This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption … display lower corruption in equilibrium. In data, naturally more open economies' do exhibit less corruption even after taking …

government (QoG) actually means at the conceptual level. Based on analyses of political theory, we propose a more coherent and …The recent growth in research on "good governance" and the quality of government institutions has been propelled by … specific definition of QoG: the impartiality of institutions that exercise government authority. We relate the idea of …

This paper empirically investigates the link between the level of government revenue per capita and six indicators of … quality of governance in an unbalanced panel data set consisting of all countries in the world (217) using data from 1980 to … strong effect over time whereby an increase in government revenue leads to a steady improvement in governance. These findings …