Global initiatives of assessing governance
International initiatives aimed at assessing governance have been launched by a number of organisations: multilateral and bilateral donors, as well as independent research institutes. Over the last decade, an ever growing number of tools and methodologies for governance assessments of various types have been developed by researchers, the private sector, NGOs and aid agencies. Bilateral and multilateral donors have become heavily involved in the provision and use of governance assessments and indicators.
- Countries at the Crossroads
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‘Countries at the Crossroads’ is an annual survey of democratic governance in 30 strategically important countries worldwide. It looks at looks at four core areas of democratic governance: anti-corruption and transparency; rule of law; civil liberties; and accountability and public voice.
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- Are international index rankings reliable?
- ( B. Hoyland;K. Moene;F. Willamsen / Research Programme on Democracy (Democracy as Idea and Practice) , 2009)
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This paper considers International index rankings and determines that they are perhaps too persuasive. The authors stress that these rankings emphasise country differences where simi...
Governance assessments and domestic accountability: how can donors aid the process?
- ( S. Meyer / Fride , 2009)
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This paper follows on from recently completed research that investigated the impact of donor harmonisation on domestic processes of democratisation. The aim of this research is to further info...
- How can global governance assessment be strengthened?
- ( Overseas Development Institute, London , 2007)
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This report presents the summary of discussions at the ODI Learning Workshop-2007 on governance assessments. Discussions focus on the way in which the World Governance Assessment (WGA) could furthe...
- Standards for assessing the performance of democratic legislatures
- ( National Democratic Institute , 2007)
- Prepared by the National Democratic Institute (NDI), this document is intended as a basis for discussion within the international community regarding standards for the functioning of democratic legisl...
- the indivisibility and universality of human rights
- ( P. P. Popovic (ed);O. V. Vieira (ed) / Sur - International Journal on Human Rights , 2008)
- This issue of the Sur Journal on International Human Rights presents a number of papers which critically revisit two issues initially raised 60 years ago by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ...
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