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Open Government and Quality of Governance: Does OGP Make Any Difference?

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Digital Transformation and Global Society (DTGS 2019)

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Abstract

The question if the Open Government Partnership (OGP), launched in 2011, has any impact on policies and institutions in its member-states, remains open. Despite several case studies revealing modest achievements of OGP to improve governance, little research has been done so far to explore this puzzle in general, using statistical means. Addressing this gap, this pilot study analyzes the impact of OGP membership on the quality of governance. Using policy feedback theory and Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling (BSEM), we have discovered that OGP might have an indirect influence on the governance quality via the development of civic participation, government transparency and feedback mechanisms.

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Notes

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    https://www.opengovpartnership.org/process/joining-ogp/open-government-declaration/.

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    https://www.opengovpartnership.org/tag/national-action-plan.

  3. 3.

    https://www.opengovpartnership.org/about/independent-reporting-mechanism.

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    https://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/.

  5. 5.

    https://www.opengovpartnership.org/.

  6. 6.

    https://worldjusticeproject.org/.

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Acknowledgement

The research has been carried within the project “Strategies and mechanisms of sta-bility in multilevel political systems” within the HSE Program of Fundamental Studies (2019).

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  1. National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Nicole Fuks & Yury Kabanov

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  1. National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Daniel A. Alexandrov

  2. ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Alexander V. Boukhanovsky

  3. ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Andrei V. Chugunov

  4. National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Yury Kabanov

  5. National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Olessia Koltsova

  6. National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Ilya Musabirov

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Fuks, N., Kabanov, Y. (2019). Open Government and Quality of Governance: Does OGP Make Any Difference?. In: Alexandrov, D., Boukhanovsky, A., Chugunov, A., Kabanov, Y., Koltsova, O., Musabirov, I. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1038. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37858-5_10

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