State effectiveness: New approaches
Abstract
The article deals with contemporary approaches to state effectiveness research. The author compares the advantages and drawbacks of two key approaches prevailing in the field: the organizational approach, dealing with micro-level research; and the institutional approach, aimed at state-level comparative research. There is a way to combine the advantages of these approaches when using Data Envelopment Analysis. The author conducts an empirical research into Russian and Canadian public health care systems to illustrate the advantages of using DEA when analyzing state effectiveness.
About the Author
Egor Yureskul
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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