Replication data for : How (when) does technological innovation improve government effectiveness? An empirical investigation with cross-national evidence

This dataset contains all of the programs and the unrestricted data used for our research: How to understand the impacts of government effectiveness (GE) on technological innovation has received full attention. But in turn, it is still a puzzle how technological innovation promotes GE. With the intention of providing rigorous empirical evidence to fill the gap, authors efficiently select variables based on novel machine learning and analyze the influence mechanism of technological innovation on GE through different models using panel data from global countries over 20 years. The investigation carried out has revealed that the relationship between technological innovation and GE is not a simple linear relation but a more complicated inverted U-shaped relation. We also distinguish the impacts of technological innovation on GE in countries with diverse democratic and developing levels. This pioneer work has provided new indicators to our understanding of innovation diffusion and determinants of GE.