Good Government: The Relevance of Political Science

by Bo Rothstein and Sören Holmberg

In all societies, the quality of government institutions is of the utmost importance for the well-being of its citizens. Problems like high infant mortality, lack of access to safe water, unhappiness and poverty are not primarily caused by a lack of technical equipment, effective medicines or other types of knowledge generated by the natural or engineering sciences. Instead, the critical problem is that the majority of the world's population live...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781954127
• ISBN13: 9781781954126
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages