Ethnic Group Inequalities and Governance: Evidence from Developing Countries
研究了29个发展中国家的数据，发现族群间的经济和社会不平等会降低政府质量，原因是不利群体更容易接受腐败，而优势群体则维护特权。
Summary Institutional quality has been increasingly identified as crucial for economic development. In line with previous work which has explored the determinants of good institutions, this paper examines the impact of economic and social inequalities between ethnic groups on government quality. I hypothesize that greater inequalities between groups will tend to undermine institutions both because they tend to legitimize corruption in the eyes of disadvantaged groups and because of the efforts of better‐off groups to maintain their privileges. Based on a panel of 29 developing countries, I find that socio‐economic ethnic group inequalities reduce government quality, something which suggests the convenience of policies that can level the playing field in ethnically heterogeneous societies.