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Political leadership and the quality of public goods and services: Does religion matter?
Economics of Governance ( IF 0.781 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 , DOI: 10.1007/s10101-020-00242-7
Aloys L. Prinz , Christian J. Sander

Despite some indications to the contrary, religion still plays an important role in contemporary society. In this paper, the association between religion and the quality of public goods and services, measured by the so-called “delivery quality” index of the Worldwide Governance Indicators project, is empirically investigated. Besides religion, different political regimes may also have a crucial impact on the quality of public goods and services. In the paper, a distinction is made between theocratic, autocratic and democratic systems. It is hypothesized that the delivery quality is lower in theocratic and autocratic regimes than in democracies. In addition, religious diversity may enhance the quality of public goods and services in otherwise autocratic and democratic regimes. The level of religious goods and services provision should be lower in religiously diverse societies, because the costs of these goods are higher due to a lack of economies of scale. This may leave more potential for the provision of high-quality public goods and services by the state. These hypotheses are tested empirically with data from 190 countries. The empirical estimates confirm that both theocratic and autocratic regimes provide lower average delivery quality than democracies. Furthermore, a positive association of religious leadership with delivery quality is found in strict autocracies. Greater religious diversity is thus linked to a better quality of pubic goods and services in democracies, but not in autocracies.



中文翻译:

政治领导与公共产品和服务的质量:宗教重要吗?

尽管有一些相反的迹象,宗教在当代社会中仍然发挥着重要作用。本文通过实证研究了宗教与公共产品和服务质量之间的关联,该关联由“全球治理指标”项目的所谓“交付质量”指数来衡量。除了宗教之外,不同的政治制度也可能对公共产品和服务的质量产生关键影响。在本文中,区分了神权制度,专制制度和民主制度。据推测,在神权和专制政权下的交付质量要比民主政体低。此外,在独裁和民主制度下,宗教多样性可以提高公共产品和服务的质量。在宗教多元化的社会中,宗教商品和服务的提供水平应较低,因为由于缺乏规模经济,这些商品的成本较高。这可能为国家提供高质量公共产品和服务留出更多潜力。这些假设通过来自190个国家/地区的数据进行了经验检验。实证估计证实,神权制和专制政权提供的平均交付质量均低于民主制。此外,在严格的独裁统治下,宗教领袖与传递质量之间存在着积极联系。因此,更大的宗教多样性与民主国家而不是独裁国家的更高质量的公共物品和服务有关。这可能为国家提供高质量公共产品和服务留出更多潜力。这些假设通过来自190个国家/地区的数据进行了经验检验。实证估计证实,神权制和专制政权提供的平均交付质量均低于民主制。此外,在严格的独裁统治下,宗教领袖与传递质量之间存在着积极联系。因此,更大的宗教多样性与民主国家而不是独裁国家的更高质量的公共物品和服务有关。这可能为国家提供高质量的公共产品和服务留出更多的潜力。这些假设通过来自190个国家/地区的数据进行了经验检验。实证估计证实,神权制和专制政权提供的平均交付质量均低于民主制。此外,在严格的独裁统治下,宗教领袖与传递质量之间存在着积极联系。因此,更大的宗教多样性与民主国家而不是独裁国家的更高质量的公共物品和服务有关。在严格的独裁统治下,宗教领导能力与传递质量之间存在积极联系。因此,更大的宗教多样性与民主国家而不是独裁国家的更高质量的公共物品和服务有关。在严格的独裁统治下,宗教领导能力与传递质量之间存在积极联系。因此,更大的宗教多样性与民主国家而不是独裁国家的更高质量的公共物品和服务有关。

更新日期:2020-09-09
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