Abstract

This article demonstrates, theoretically and empirically, that public corruption is likely to degrade government management capacity and its sub-dimensions such as human resource management, information management, financial management, and capital (infrastructure) management. By shedding light on the classic black box idea of management, we explain that public corruption deteriorates government management capacity by hampering an effective integration of the sub-dimensions of management. Using panel ordered logit regressions and the generalized method of moments estimations, we find a statistically significant negative association between public corruption and the overall management capacity of the U.S. state governments. Across the sub-dimensions of government management capacity, the harmful impact of corruption is most evident in capital and infrastructure management, even in the context of the U.S. state governments. This requires policymakers’ special attention to capital and infrastructure management practices, even in the most advanced country of the management system.

摘要

本文从理论上和经验上证明，公共腐败可能会降低政府管理能力及其子维度，如人力资源管理、信息管理、财务管理和资本（基础设施）管理。通过阐明经典的管理黑匣子思想，我们解释了公共腐败通过阻碍管理子维度的有效整合而恶化了政府的管理能力。使用面板有序 logit 回归和广义矩估计方法，我们发现公共腐败与美国州政府的整体管理能力之间存在统计学上显着的负相关关系。跨越政府管理能力的子维度，腐败的有害影响在资本和基础设施管理中最为明显，即使在美国州政府的背景下也是如此。这需要政策制定者特别关注资本和基础设施管理实践，即使在管理系统最先进的国家也是如此。