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Authors:
Prakrit Silal
Ashutosh Jha
Debashis Saha
Keywords: E-Government; EGDI; Corruption; CPI; E-Gov Strategies; Longitudinal clustering; Panel regression
Abstract:
Internationally E-Government (E-GOV) has been broadly demonstrated as an anti-corruption instrument in extant research, based on the extensive analyses of E-GOV Development Index (EGDI) against Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). EGDI’s effectiveness in combating corruption ideally involves country-specific appropriate policy-driven development along its three constituent components: Human Capital Index (HCI), Telecommunications Infrastructure Index (TII), and Online Services Index (OSI). However, we argue that, while considering EGDI’s impact on lowering corruption, existing studies do not consider the heterogeneity among the countries in terms of their EGDI maturity levels. Also, past research does not delve into the analysis of the relative contribution of EGDI components in controlling CPI, which may very well vary with EGDI maturity level. We posit that, unless these determinants are explored, countries would lack in formulating right policies to strengthen the enablers they are currently weak in to fight against corruption. So, this paper aims to understand the exact role HCI, TII, and OSI play individually in alleviating corruption vis-à-vis how these index values vary across cohorts of countries having similar EGDI trajectories. Using longitudinal clustering based on EGDI, we first identify temporal country cohorts and then perform cohort-wise panel regression to analyze the individual effects of HCI, TII and OSI on CPI. As expected, the three components do not contribute uniformly in lowering corruption, and more importantly, each assumes significance only under different contingent internal factors. So, based on our results, we recommend, for each cohort, a set of specific E-GOV development policies targeted for combating corruption, thereby helping countries formulate long-term and short-term measures toward moving up the E-GOV maturity stages too.
Pages: 1 to 7
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019
Publication date: February 24, 2019
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-3956
ISBN: 978-1-61208-685-9
Location: Athens, Greece
Dates: from February 24, 2019 to February 28, 2019