The Impact of Good Governance on the Quality of Road Infrastructure within the European Union

Abstract

The article assesses the role of good governance in promoting the quality of road networks in the European Union. For this purpose, we consider four dimensions related to good governance: effectiveness of government, quality of legislation, control of corruption, and political stability. Our research aims to test the hypothesis that the different indicators of the governing act have differing impacts on the quality of road infrastructures, the objective of our analysis being to quantify the contribution of each of the above-mentioned indicators. Through a quantitative analysis which used coefficients of correlation and determination, we quantified the explanatory contribution of good governance indicators to the configuration of the quality of road infrastructure in the states of the Union from 2007 to 2019. Our findings show that political stability has the most consistent explanatory contribution, followed by government effectiveness, legislative quality, and corruption control, although the distribution of impact varies significantly across EU member states.

Keywords

• road infrastructure
• government effectiveness
• regulatory quality
• control of corruption
• political stability
• european union
• good governance