國立臺灣大學政治科學論叢

This study attempts to explain the correlation between e-government development levels and the performance of COVID-19 vaccination coverage across countries, while controlling for other important variables related to rates of vaccination. The assumption is that countries with higher levels of e-government development are more likely to have better vaccination performance. Secondly, some past studies have found that African countries generally performed poorly with vaccination coverage, showing that poor vaccination coverage is spatially heterogeneous. Therefore, this study uses cross-country data to examine the relationship between the level of e-government development and vaccine coverage performance in various countries with traditional regression and geographically weighted regression. The results show that a country’s e-government development positively affects its performance with COVID-19 vaccination coverage: countries with higher levels of e-government development have better performance with vaccine coverage. In Asia, the higher the levels of e-government development, the higher the improvements on the performance of vaccination coverage, especially when compared to other regions in the world. The region where corruption control has a higher effect on improving the performance of vaccination coverage is Africa.