This paper uses panel data on over 200 regions of Europe during the years 2010–2015 to study the relationship between the quality of institutions and the capacity of local authorities and stakeholders to effectively protect and support cultural heritage, using new designations in the UNESCO World Heritage List as a proxy. Besides analyzing the spatial distribution of World Heritage sites across European regions, we test whether the location of a region matters for the chances of obtaining a new UNESCO designation by controlling for the stock of World Heritage in the surrounding regions, and whether low regional government quality is an obstacle to inclusion of sites into the List. While we can detect no significant spill-overs from the stock of World Heritage in surrounding regions, we find evidence that local government quality matters for the chances of a region gaining a UNESCO site designation.

本文使用2010-2015年间欧洲200多个地区的面板数据，利用联合国教科文组织世界遗产的新名称，研究机构质量与地方当局和利益相关者有效保护和支持文化遗产的能力之间的关系。列为代理。除了分析整个欧洲地区的世界遗产地的空间分布之外，我们还通过控制周边地区世界遗产的存量来检验地区的位置是否对获得联合国教科文组织新的名称机会是否重要以及地区政府的素质是否较低这是将网站纳入列表的障碍。虽然我们无法从周围地区的世界遗产名录中发现任何重大溢出效应，