Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250111 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/21/087
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
In the quest for the attainment of democracy with its fully unleashed potentials, the role of information and communication technology (ICT) is integral within this current knowledge economy disposition. The study explores the effect of mobile technology penetration on governance quality from the unconditional and marginal effects of mobile phones and diverse democracy indicators. The analysis is carried out by applying the instrumental variables (IV) Tobit regression to the data to examine the relationship among the variables of interest with a view to handling possible endogeneity issues in the empirical model. The study finds that weak democracy is detrimental to the effect of mobile phone penetration on integrated governance quality and that the higher the mobile phone penetration, the lower the weak democracy quality in SSA. The study concludes by recommending efforts and policies to be enacted and implemented such as the enhancement of mobile technology for concise quality governance.
Subjects: 
Democracy
Information and Communication Technology
Governance
InstrumentVariables
JEL: 
O3
O15
O55
Q55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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