Countries compete with one another for funds distributed by nongovernment organizations (NGOs). We examine the competition over poverty and governance conducted by a NGO in the allocation of its funds among potential recipient countries. The NGO in its decisionmaking process also takes into account the initial conditions of each potential recipient, including the current quality of governance a...

A large literature suggests that countries with better governance have higher growth rates. We explore whether this is also true at the sub-national level in Indonesia. We exploit a new dataset of firm perceptions of the quality of economic governance in 243 districts across Indonesia to estimate the impact of nine different dimensions of governance on district growth. Surprisingly, we find rel...

We investigate relationships between environmental governance and water quality in two adjacent growing metropolitan areas in the western US. While the Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington metro areas share many common biophysical characteristics, they have different land development histories and water governance structures, providing a unique opportunity for examining how differences in...

This study examines whether stronger corporate governance leads to higher quality financial reporting. We use a regression discontinuity method to analyze the effect on financial reporting quality of shareholder-sponsored governance proposals that pass or fail by a small margin of votes in annual meetings. This empirical strategy allows us to overcome the endogeneity problem of governance mecha...

Epistemic governance and epistemic innovation policy formulate a critique against too-narrowly defined approaches to governance, where governance follows onesidedly bureaucratic or technocratic considerations. Instead, epistemic governance (also quality management and quality enhancement) and epistemic innovation policy should be regarded as a plea for a more comprehensive understanding, where ...

Clinical governance has been introduced as a new approach to quality improvement in the UK national health service. This article maps clinical governance against a discussion of the four main approaches to measuring and improving quality of care: quality assessment, quality assurance, clinical audit, and quality improvement (including continuous quality improvement). Quality assessment underpin...

Benefits of e-government are many. Not only the citizens of a country receive a quality service and empowerment, but the government and other stakeholders are also benefited by adoption of an e-government system. The present paper investigates the e-government readiness scenario in India and UAE vis-à-vis other countries in Asia. The study is based on the e-government surveys conducted by the U...

This study examines whether improvements in corporate governance lead to higher quality financial reporting. We use a regression discontinuity method to analyze the effect on financial reporting quality of shareholder-sponsored governance proposals that pass or fail by a small margin of votes in annual meetings. This empirical strategy allows us to overcome the endogeneity problem of governance...

Clinical governance has been introduced as a new approach to quality improvement in the UK national health service. This article maps clinical governance against a discussion of the four main approaches to measuring and improving quality of care: quality assessment, quality assurance, clinical audit, and quality improvement (including continuous quality improvement). Quality assessment underpin...