Education, Complaints, and Accountability
研究发现，受教育程度更高的人更可能举报官员不当行为，这可能是教育改善政府质量的一个机制。基于世界正义项目等多源调查数据，该结论在民主和专制国家均成立。
Better-educated countries have better governments, an empirical regularity that holds in both dictatorships and democracies. Possible reasons for this fact are that educated people are more likely to complain about misconduct by government officials and that more frequent complaints encourage better behavior from officials. Newly assembled individual-level survey data from the World Justice Project show that, within countries, better-educated people are more likely to report official misconduct. The results are confirmed using other survey data on reporting crime and corruption. Citizens’ complaints might thus be an operative mechanism that explains the link between education and the quality of government.