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What is the quality of government (QoG) and how it can be empirically measured? After the early years when research on governance has largely been dominated by economic studies analysing the relationship between economic growth and institutions, in recent years this subject has begun to attract the attention of many other scholars interested in studying the “input-side” of democracy. This paper will provide an original definition of QoG focused on the role of the executive power in the overall quality of democracy to be used in a small-N research design using qualitative data. This approach will be used to assess the QoG in Slovakia, comparing the results with the Worldwide Governance Indicators of the World Bank. The results show that this qualitative approach to the quality of government is more suitable to highlight change in a short-time period, and stress the importance to use both approaches to have a more general picture of the QoG.

Keywords: Quality of Government, Slovakia, Democracy, Qualitative methods