Format:
1 Online-Ressource (368 pages)
ISBN:
9780857934932
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0857934937
Content:
In all societies, the quality of government institutions is of the utmost importance for the well-being of its citizens. Problems like high infant mortality, lack of access to safe water, unhappiness and poverty are not primarily caused by a lack of technical equipment, effective medicines or other types of knowledge generated by the natural or engineering sciences. Instead, the critical problem is that the majority of the world's population live in societies that have dysfunctional government institutions. Central issues discussed in the book include: how can good government be conceptualized.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Introduction: political science and the importance of good government -- Part I. What it is. 2. Defining and measuring quality of government ; 3. Public administration around the world ; 4. Need or greed corruption? ; 5. Impartiality and the need for a public ethics of care -- Part II. How to get it. 6. In democracy we trust, but how much? ; 7. Press freedom and corruption ; 8. Weberian bureaucracy and corruption prevention ; 9. Do international organizations promote quality of government? ; 10. State legitimacy and the corruptibility of leaders ; 11. Legislators and variation in quality of government ; 12. Why women are less corrupt than men ; 13. Rethinking the nature of the grabbing hand -- Part III. What you get. 14. Part of the solution ; 15. Access to safe water ; 16. Happiness.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0857934929
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857934925
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Good government Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2012 ISBN 9780857934925
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Good government Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, ©2012
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Good Governance
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Politische Soziologie
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