Research on the Impact of Digital Infrastructure on Local Government Governance Capability
The wide application of digital infrastructure has a direct effect on the effectiveness of government governance.This paper uses the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2006 to 2021 for empirical testing,constructs an index system of local government governance capacity from five di-mensions:government,rule of law,regulation,economy,and people's livelihood,and calculates its index through the entropy method,explores the impact of digital infrastructure on local government governance ability,and examines the heterogeneous impact on government support,informatization development level and region.The results show that,firstly,digital infrastructure can help improve the governance capacity of local governments,secondly,in regions with higher government support and higher level of local informatization development,digital infrastructure has a stronger role in pro-moting local government governance capacity,and thirdly,compared with the western region,digital infrastructure has a more significant role in promoting local government governance capacity in the central and eastern regions.Based on the research results,this paper provides corresponding counter-measures and suggestions to help China continuously improve the efficiency of local government gov-ernance.
digital infrastructurelocal government governance capacitygovernment supportinformatization development
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