Today’s guests are Eddy Malesky, Professor of Political Economy at Duke University, and Paul Schuler, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona. They are two of the five co-authors of the 2023 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index, or PAPI.

PAPI is “the country’s largest, annual, citizen-centric and nationwide policy monitoring tool.”

Eddy was previously a guest on the episode about the Provincial Competitiveness Index, which I recommend checking out if you haven’t already.

We discussed the origins of the PAPI and the need to assess public views on policy, the response over time from different levels of government, its evolution into an elite public opinion survey, the unique nature of the index on a global scale, PAPI’s dimensions and which matter most to people, the anti-corruption campaign’s reflection through the survey, significant trends over the years, and insights from the open-ended ‘issue of greatest concern’ question.

Related Links:

2023 PAPI Report

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