Abstract
The paper aims at contributing to the debate on whether open government impacts the quality of governance, and if so, identify the causal mechanisms that might be evident to support this impact. Using structural equation modeling, we test the sample of country-level data from 2014 to 2017, assessing the direct effect of open government on the government effectiveness, as well as its indirect effect via the levels of democracy and corruption. Our analysis confirms that open government may have positive effects on the quality of governance, but this effect is moderated by the level of corruption in a country.
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The research is a part of the project “Strategies and mechanisms of stability in multilevel political systems” within the HSE Program of Fundamental Studies (2019).
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Fuks, N., Kabanov, Y. (2020). The Impact of Open Government on the Quality of Governance: Empirical Analysis. In: Chugunov, A., Khodachek, I., Misnikov, Y., Trutnev, D. (eds) Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia. EGOSE 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1135. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39296-3_9
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