Tavits, Margit
(2004)
INSTITUTIONS OR CULTURE? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
The study examines competing institutional and cultural explanations of government performance. I use within country comparison of 125 sub-national governments in Germany and the U.S. and cross-regional comparison of these two countries. Government performance is conceptualized and measured on two dimensions - policy responsiveness and administrative effectiveness. I show that social capital is associated with the former but is unrelated to the level of administrative effectiveness. The latter is explained by the institutional factor of bureaucratic power concentration.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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Status: |
Unpublished |
Creators/Authors: |
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ETD Committee: |
Title | Member | Email Address | Pitt Username | ORCID |
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Committee Chair | Peters, B Guy | bgpeters@pitt.edu | BGPETERS | | Committee Member | Sbragia, Alberta | sbragia@pitt.edu | SBRAGIA | | Committee Member | Carman, Christopher J | carman@pitt.edu | CARMAN | | Committee Member | Ingraham, Patricia W | | | |
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Date: |
27 June 2004 |
Date Type: |
Completion |
Defense Date: |
2 February 2004 |
Approval Date: |
27 June 2004 |
Submission Date: |
30 March 2004 |
Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
Schools and Programs: |
Faculty of Arts and Sciences > Political Science |
Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
Refereed: |
Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
administrative effectiveness; German local government; institutions; policy activism; social capital; U.S. local government; cooperation; government performance |
Other ID: |
http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-03302004-125054/, etd-03302004-125054 |
Date Deposited: |
10 Nov 2011 19:33 |
Last Modified: |
15 Nov 2016 13:37 |
URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/6644 |
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