Methodology

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Voice of well-informed persons in governance assessment: ( J. Court;G. Hyden;K. Mease / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2002); This paper focuses on the methods used for collecting data in 22 countries for the World Governance Survey (WGS)....
Assessing corruption in transition countries: ( S. Knack / World Bank , 2006); This paper assesses corruption levels and trends among countries in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) based on data from several sources that are both widely used and c...
Handbook on democracy assessment: ( D. Beetham;S. Bracking;I. Kearton / International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA , 2001); The International IDEA Handbook on Democracy Assessment is a guide to assessing the quality of democracy and human rights in any country around the world. ...
Human rights as an aid condition: An assessment: ( K. Desormeau / Carr Center for Human Rights Policy , 2005); Donors have long used human rights arguments to justify the giving or withholding of development assistance. Until the late 1990s, however, donor governments relied mainly on subjective judgments. ...
Ranking peaceful countries: ( Vision of Humanity , 2008); The Global Peace Index (GPI) 2008 ranks nations based on their relative states of peace. Covering 140 countries, the GPI brings a snapshot of relative peacefulness among nations while continuing to co...
World economic freedom advances steadily: ( K.R. Holmes;E.J. Feulner;M.A. O’Grady (ed) / University of Bologna , 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...
Developing peace and conflict impact assessment: ( M. Hoffman / Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management , 2001); This paper provides a snap shot of some of the current initiatives or approaches to developing peace and conflict impact assessment‘ (PCIA) methodologies. It provides an overview of three approa...
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...
Measurement issues in political science: ( G.L. Munck;J. Verkuilen / Arizona State 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...
Methodological approach to measuring gender equality: ( BRIDGE , 2007); This report examines conceptual and methodological approaches to gender and measurements of change with a focus on indicators, examining current debates and good practice from the grassroots to the in...