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Bolkvadze Ketevan

Ketevan Bolkvadze

Universitetslektor

Bolkvadze Ketevan

Fresh pipes with dirty water: How quality of government shapes the provision of public goods in democracies

Författare

  • Ketevan Bolkvadze
  • Marina Povitkina

Summary, in English

A large strand of research holds that democracy with its broad representation and electoral accountability is beneficial for the provision of public goods. Yet, there is a large variation in how democracies perform, indicating that democratic institutions alone do not suffice for securing citizens’ wellbeing. Recent studies have stressed the equal importance of state capacity for public goods delivery. These studies, however, rarely investigate how the lack of state capacity mutes the effects of democratic institutions on public goods provision. This article addresses this gap by using a mixed methods design. First, the conditional effects of democracy and quality of government (QoG) are tested on the previously under‐researched domain of the provision of clean water. The results show that democracy is associated with higher water quality only in countries where QoG is high. If QoG is low, more democracy is even related to lower water quality. The second stage of the analysis proceeds by examining how poor QoG disrupts the effects of democracy on public access to safe drinking water using interview data from a typical case of Moldova. The analysis illustrates that democracy has a number of positive effects and incentivises politicians to focus on the visible aspects of water provision, including the expansion of the water pipe network. However, low QoG hampers adoption and implementation of long‐term policies necessary for securing an aspect of water provision that is harder to achieve – namely water quality. This leaves the fresh pipes with dirty water.

Avdelning/ar

  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

Publiceringsår

2019-11

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1191-1212

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

European Journal of Political Research

Volym

58

Avvikelse

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Political Science

Nyckelord

  • democracy
  • quality of government (QoG)
  • public goods
  • water quality
  • Moldova

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0304-4130