Guidance to governance indicators

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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); 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...
Importance of large cross-national surveys: ( R. Inglehart;C. Welzel / , 2004); This paper focuses on the question: what insights can be obtained from multi-country surveys, and only from multi-country surveys – provided they are designed and conducted properly?...
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...
How to use indicators for assessing human rights standards in development programmes?: ( UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2006); This document is a practical guide on indicators for human rights based approaches to development programmes, for UNDP country offices....
How to use governance indicators?: ( UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2007); The increasing demand for reliable measures of governance has resulted in a tremendous growth in indicator sources, which are used to measure the performance of governments, the quality of public inst...
Indices of national performance: a survey: ( R. Bandura;C. Martin del Campo / Office of Development Studies, UNDP , 2009); This paper presents an update of the June 2005 survey of country indices that rank or assess countries according to some measure. The present update includes new indices launched between June 2005 and...
Ibrahim Index for governance assessment: limitations: ( J. Blaser / United Nations Development Programme , 2008); Mo Ibrahim Foundation published a new index in September 2007 ranking the performance of the 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The Ibrahim Index grades countries on factors such as security, levels ...
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...
What does World Governance Assessment offer?: ( G. Hyden;K. Mease;M. Foresti / Overseas Development Institute [ES] , 2008); This report introduces the basic features of the World Governance Assessment (WGA) and highlights main findings of the second round of WGA that was conducted in 10 countries in the global South during...
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 ...