Fiscal strength doesn’t guarantee public goods delivery, US study finds (FOTO)
A newly released study of US state government performance found strong partisan and regional patterns within three pillars of governance: democratic accountability, state capacity and public goods provision. Yet, the US states’ outcomes differ in important ways from international comparisons, as the three governance dimensions show limited correlation, the researchers found.
The report, “_The Governance Performance of the Fifty States: The U.S. Berggruen Governance Index”_, applies the research team’s “governance!-->…