Rezension: Bågenholm, Andreas, Bauhr, Monika, Grimes, Marcia, & Rothstein, Bo (2021) (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government

Rezension

Abstract: The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government delivers an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the foundations and findings from the Quality of Government (QoG) research agenda, mainly developed at the QoG Institute founded in 2004 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Starting from a rather narrow concept of QoG, focusing on impartiality, the handbook argues forcefully that the quality of public institutions is crucial for all kinds of social, economic, and political outcomes, that higher levels of QoG are related to higher levels of human well-being and political legitimacy, and are therefore more important than, for example, levels of liberal democracy. This rather narrow perspective of the handbook turns out to be one of its strengths, since all contributions start from identical concepts, while discussing all kinds of theoretical, empirical, and critical objections. All contributions offer very helpful overviews and systematic summaries of existing literature and are therefore very

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Deutsch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet ; In: der moderne staat - dms: Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management ; 15 (2022) 1 ; 269-272

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik
• Keyword: Rotštejn, Fëdor A. ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2022
• Creator: Jann, Werner

Further information

• DOI: 10.3224/dms.v15i1.13
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-79711-5
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 10:51 AM CEST