Scholars from the Quality of Government Institute (QoG), which is under Department of Political Science of the University of Gothenburg, visited Unirule on June 6th, 2013. QoG dedicates to international comparative studies and evaluations with regards to qualities of governments, which is similar to Unirule’s Public Governance Research. Prof. Yao Zhongqiu, President of Unirule, and Prof. Feng Xingyuan, Vice Director of Unirule, greeted all the guests warmly, and hosted a seminar on Quality of Government.

The core researchers of the QoG Institute are Sören Holmberg and Bo Rothstein, who are the authors of Good Government. In the seminar, the leader of QoG introduced the methodologies, progresses and significance of their main studies. They have received more than 30 thousands feedbacks of questionnaires in Europe so far, which involve public service of governments, government efficiency, corruption, etc. They quantitatively evaluate the qualities of governments based on their surveys.

Similarly, Unirule’s Public Governance Research has two main purposes. First, Unirule aims to create a competitive environment among provincial capital cities in the aspect of public governance. As an independent and impartial think tank, Unirule evaluates government’s public governance and provide an objective information platform showing how governments serve their people and comparing governments’ public governances among cities to citizens. The information platform invisibly boosts competitions among governments. Second, Unirule dedicates to provide a basis to evaluate government officials. The information collected within governments systems is often biased or even distorted owing to the collusion of various interest groups. Mr. Zhang Lin, a fellow from Unirule, introduced the research objectives, methodologies and progresses of Unirule’s Public Governance Research. Unirule and QoG are looking forward to further communication and cooperation in terms of data sharing and investigations in future.