Abstract
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supports the sharing of information to improve the Quality of Governance (QoG). Many studies found a relationship between ICT diffusion and globalization and between ICT diffusion and the Quality of Governance. This study investigates the influence of both ICT diffusion and globalization in explaining the country level QoG while incorporating gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, human capital, and government expenditure in the context of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nation) region. To this end, we used Panel Autoregressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) to analyze panel data from 1984 to 2017. In contrast to research conducted in other countries, our research shows that the impact of ICT diffusion on QoG is not significant in the ASEAN region. The findings can be explained by a lack of coherent ICT-strategy among the countries and a lack of institutional mechanisms to ensure ICT efforts’ effectiveness. However, the relationship between globalization and QoG is positive and significant.
Highlights
Literature suggests that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) usage can enhance the Quality of Governance (QoG) of the country by sharing information with the public (Bertot et al, 2010a; Zuiderwijk and Janssen, 2014; Sassi and Ali, 2017)
This study examines how ICT diffusion and globalization stimulate QoG using the macroeconomic indicator focusing on 8 Association of Southeast Asian (ASEAN) countries over the span of 1984 to 2017
This can be explained by looking at ICT diffusion in the ASEAN countries
Summary
Literature suggests that ICT usage can enhance the Quality of Governance (QoG) of the country by sharing information with the public (Bertot et al, 2010a; Zuiderwijk and Janssen, 2014; Sassi and Ali, 2017). Opening information to the public enables the people of the society to observe the government activities and realize the improvement of overall governance (Bonina and Eaton, 2020; Janssen et al, 2020) In this way, ICT diffusion is expected to influence the QoG. Under the auspicious of the World Bank, Kaufmann et al (2011) define QoG as “the tradition and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised It includes “the process by which governments are selected, monitored and replaced; the capacity of the government to effectively formulate and implement sound policies and the respect of citizens and the state of the institutions that govern economic and social interactions among them” (p.3)
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