Political equality and quality of government

Ezcurra Orayen, Roberto; Zuazu, Izaskun

Political equality and quality of government

dc.contributor.author	Ezcurra Orayen, Roberto
dc.contributor.author	Zuazu, Izaskun
dc.contributor.department	Economía	es_ES
dc.contributor.department	Ekonomia	eu
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-12T06:27:06Z
dc.date.available	2022-04-12T06:27:06Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	This paper examines the relationship between political equality and quality of government. Our hypothesis is that political equality fosters access to inclusive education and ultimately promotes good governance. We empirically test this hypothesis using data for 145 countries with different levels of economic development. In order to overcome potential endogeneity problems, our identification strategy exploits the variation in political equality in geographically neighbouring countries by means of spatial econometric techniques. The results reveal a positive and statistically significant effect of political equality on the quality of government. This implies that countries where political power is more evenly distributed tend on average to have higher levels of institutional quality. In fact, this result is not affected by the inclusion in the analysis of a substantial number of controls that may be correlated with both political equality and quality of government, including the extent of democracy and the degree of economic inequality. In fact, the observed link between political equality and governance remains robust to alternative measures of quality of government, estimation techniques, and other sensitivity checks. Our estimates also show that education acts as a transmission channel linking political equality and quality of government.	en
dc.format.extent	25 p.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/kykl.12295
dc.identifier.issn	0023-5962
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/42712
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Wiley	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Kyklos, Vol. 75 (2), February 2022	en
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12295
dc.rights	© 2022 The Authors. Kyklos published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Political equality	en
dc.subject	Quality of government	en
dc.subject	Spatial econometric techniques	en
dc.subject	Education	en
dc.title	Political equality and quality of government	en
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