The Effect Evaluation of Digital Government Development on Public Governance Efficiency
Using the data of prefecture-level and above cities in China,this paper identifies the impact of digital government devel-opment on the public governance effectiveness.It is found that digital government development improves public governance effec-tiveness on the whole by improving financial transparency,strengthening government responsibility awareness and enhancing gov-ernment execution,but there are three levels of heterogeneity in this effect:First,compared with other forms of digital govern-ance,information disclosure and online service digitalization play more critical role;Second,for cities with different governance levels,the influence of digital government development presents an inverted V-shaped feature of first strengthening and then weak-ening;Third,the governance effectiveness of digital government development is more obvious in the eastern region and cities with stronger technical management capabilities and less financial pressure.In addition,scientific system design is the key to promote the digital government development.Meanwhile,setting up chief data officer and strengthening digital government performance as-sessment can effectively strengthen the public governance effectiveness of digital government development.
digital government developmentpublic governance effectivenesschief data officerdigital government performance assessment
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