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Full democracies, flawed democracies and hybrid regimes: ( L. Kekic / Economist Intelligence Unit , 2008); This document describes the Economist Intelligent Unit’s index of democracy. This index is based on view that measures of democracy that reflect the state of political freedoms and civil liberti...
Democracy measures: an overview of data sets: ( G.L. Munck / World Bank , 2003); This paper provides an overview of measures of democracy, governance and rule of law. The focus is on broad cross- national data sets, that is, those data sets that can offer a sense of the overall va...
World economic freedom advances steadily: ( K.R. Holmes;E.J. Feulner;M.A. O’Grady (ed) / The Heritage Foundation , 2008); This is the 14th edition of The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom. The objective of the Index is to catalogue economies in a quantitative and rigorous manner. Yet the I...
Mass attitudes and democracy linkages: ( R Inglehart / Asian Barometer , 2003); Qualities such as tolerance of outgroups, interpersonal trust, the post-materialist emphasis on civil rights and political participation, and a sense of subjective well-being may contribute to the eme...
Measurement issues in political science: ( G.L. Munck;J. Verkuilen / Georgetown University , 2003); This paper seeks to respond to the need to bring measurement back in to political science. It does so through an in-depth discussion of the methodological issues involved in the measurement of democra...
Monitoring progress in democracy: ( United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance , 2002); This paper focuses on the efforts of different institutions to assist governments and democracy actors with tools and methods for monitoring and assessing progress in democracy and good governance in ...
A methodology to assess the state of democracy: ( O. Tungwarara / Democratic Audit of Australia , 2006); This paper focuses on a methodology – State of Democracy (SOD) methodology, developed by the International Institute for Democracy Assistance (IDEA) to assess the state of democracy in the world...
How should democracy programmes be evaluated?: ( P. Burnell (ed) / International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA , 2007); Development programmes aimed at supporting democracy are difficult to evaluate as a result of diverse concepts of democracy, the complex nature of the democratisation process and problems in attrib...
How should donor agencies use governance indicators?: ( J. Court;V. Fritz;E. Gyimah-Boadi / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2007); Does governance matter? This paper explores the role of governance in aid effectiveness, pointing to policy recommendations (specifically with regards to Irish Aid) on how aid policy should be link...