Regional initiatives of assessing governance

Parallel to global and country level initiatives for governance assessments, several organisations such as AfriMap, APRM, NEPAD and Mo Ibrahim foundation are involved in assessing governance at regional level. This section brings together governance measurements in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Asia-Pacific and Arab States.

Assessing the governance of electricity regulatory agencies in the Latin American and Caribbean region

M. Henley / Panos Pictures

This paper evaluaties and benchmarks the governance of regulatory agencies in the electricity sector in Latin American Countries (LAC). The authors develop an index of regulatory governance and rank all the agencies in the LAC countries.

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Problem of measuring the quality of democracy in Latin America.: ( D. Altman;A. Perez-Linan / Rollins College , 2002); This article explores the problem of conceptualising and measuring the quality of democracy in Latin America. The study constructs summary measures of the quality of democracy in several ways, and sho...
Assessing conflict-democracy links: a methodology: ( M. Chernic;J. Bailey / Georgetown University , 2005); This paper presents a seven-step methodology designed to analyse violent conflict, assess democratic governance and understand the relationships between the two. It has been developed principally a...
Index of African governance 2009: ( R.I. Rotberg;R.M. Gisselquist / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2009); The 2009 Index of African Governance seeks to measure the degree to which five categories of political goods - Safety and Security; Rule of Law, Transparency, and Corruption; Participation and Huma...
Pitfalls of public consultations: ( R. M a t t e s / South African Institute of International Affairs, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) , 2008); The opinions of the general public are as important as those of the elite if a country wishes to achieve a comprehensive self-assessment process, such as the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). B...
How independent are think tanks?: ( O. I b e a n u / South African Institute of International Affairs, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) , 2008); This paper analyses the relationship between privately and publicly funded policy research institutions ('think-tanks') and government, and the extent to which that relationship may change commensu...

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Regional initiatives

Often countries within the same region face similar governance challenges and opportunities. Governance assessments that take regional dimensions into account may sometimes provide more insight and better evaluations, depending on the measuring needs. More...