对发展中国家而言,没有健全的国家机构,就不可能有良好的政府治理质量,没有良好的政府治理质量,就很难持续发展经济。瑞典政治学者罗斯坦(Bo Rothstein)所主持的政府质量(Quality of Government)计划建构了全世界最完整的政治、经济与社会发展指标资料库,涵盖107个国家。他的团队长期研究得到的结论是:民主与经济发展没有必然的关系,民主也不一定能够带来优质政府,但优质政府却是成功的经济发展必备的条件。[7]
注释:
[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/nyregion/one in five new york city residents living in poverty ht ml?_r=0
[2]Francis Fukuyama,“America in Decay:The Sources of Political Dysfunction,”Foreign Affairs,September October,2014.
[3]Raghuram G Rajan,Fault Lines:How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy Paperback (Princeton University Press,2011).
[4]Andrew Ross Sorkin,Too Big to Fail:The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System and Themselves(Penguin Books 2010).
[5]Larry Diamond,“The Democratic Rollback:The Resurgence of the Predatory State,”Foreign Affairs,April/May 2008.
[6]Francis Fukuyama,State Building:Goverance and World Order in the 21st Century(Cornell University Press,2004).
[7]Bo Rothstein,2003 ,“Social Capital,Economic Growth and Quality of Government:The Causal Mechanism,”New Political Economy.Volume 8,Issue 1;Sren Holmberg,Bo Rothstein,and Naghmeh Nasiritousi,2009,“Quality of Government:What You Get,”Annual Review of Political Science,Vol 12 June 2009:135161.