POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Developing Country, Civil Society, Human Capital

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 227
• Professor: Philip Oxhorn

Document Summary

Governance, how power is exercised and checked once a government is in oice. Two central features of good governance: capacity of a government to extract taxes from its ciizens, ability to control corrupion states earn incomes by taxing their ciizens, accountable to ciizens, develop state bureaucracies curb corrupion a feature. Governance and good governance poliical dimension includes government legiimacy and human rights, rule of law, accountability. Vietnam has links to an authoritarian regime and high levels of corrupion, ye achieve economic growth linked to poverty of reduced levels and improved public services. Focused on transparency, iscal accountability, sound management of the public sector, economic governance. Governance as the tradiions and insituions that determine how authority is exercised in a country. Six dimensions: voice and accountability, poliical stability and absence of violence or terrorism, government efeciveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, control of corrupion: good governance correlated with beter development.