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Rethinking National Competitiveness: A Critical Assessment of Governmental Capacity Measures

verfasst von: Tobin Im, Youngmi Choi

Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 2/2018

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Scholars, policymakers, and media have increasingly focused on national competitiveness in the context of globalization and economic growth. This heightened attention underscores the importance of the many indices ranking government performance and effectiveness across countries. The four indices, government efficiency, public institutions, government effectiveness, and quality of government, have dominated this field. However, we found serious limitations they reveal, in terms of analytical soundness and policy relevance and usefulness. This paper systematically provides such a critique and lays the groundwork for thinking about government capacity in a new way: in terms of government competitiveness. So doing, this paper contributes to the literature about national competitiveness, governance quality, administrative reform, and development studies.

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This proposed definition is however a rough draft, as the first step toward a complete and final definition of GC. After examining limitations of existing indices measuring government capacity and performance, it will be more improved in the future research.

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In his study (2013), Fukuyama uses output and outcome interchangeably.

For the IMD and WEF measurability issues, see Van de Walle (2006), Lall (2001), and Ochel and Rohn (2006); for the World Bank’s WGI, see Arndt and Oman (2006), Langbein and Knack (2010), Thomas (2010), and Weiss (2000); and for the QGI’s QoG, see Agnafors (2013) and Fukuyama (2013).

Including only output sides would be more serious problems when we consider how hard to separate the role of government from other factors, such as the role of markets, civil societies, etc.

Unlike other indices, the QoG does not provide the rankings of each category, in fact. With the average values of the 106 QoG variables (4 missing data), we calculate the rankings.

The QGI dataset is most disaggregated in order to make researchers easily select the sub-variables which fit into their studies.

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Titel: Rethinking National Competitiveness: A Critical Assessment of Governmental Capacity Measures
verfasst von: Tobin Im
Youngmi Choi
Publikationsdatum: 18.11.2016
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-016-1494-z

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