- 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 emergence and flourishing of democrac...
- Evaluation of public governance quality: an overview
- T. Bovaird; E. Löffler / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2003
- This article provides an overview on the evaluation of the quality of public governance. It charts the move in the public sector during the 1990s from concern largely with excellence in service delivery to a concern for good governanc...
- Where is Africa going?
- Afrobarometer, 2006
- This compendium summarises both continental trends and divergent country directions. It is based on three rounds of Afrobarometer public opinion surveys, 1999-2006. The study finds that even though Africans increasingly wo...
- 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 democracy, a key concept in political sci...
- 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 the third wave democracy countries...
- Azerbaijan's MDG record
- United Nations Development Group, 2005
- Azerbaijan launched the ”State Programme on Poverty Reduction and Economic Development” (SPPRED) in 2003 in order to reduce poverty and improve living standards of its citizens. The SPPRED sets out concrete policy actions ...
- Manual on building national system of criminal justice statistics
- Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2003
- This manual sets out an updated general framework for the development of a national system of criminal justice statistics. The manual reflects certain serious shortcomings in national criminal justice systems, such as abuse...
- Developing the Urban Governance Index
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2004
- UN-HABITAT’s Global Campaign on Urban Governance supports the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and contributes to the eradication of poverty through improved urban governance. The Urban Governance Index (UGI) has been develo...
- 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. The methodology is b...
- Measuring governance and corruption in Latin America
- Transparency International, 2006
- This study identifies and presents the international, national and local tools that measure corruption and good governance in Latin America. The mapping covers close to 100 tools in 17 countries in Latin America, including:...
- 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. The methodology is b...
- Measuring governance and corruption in Latin America
- Transparency International, 2006
- This study identifies and presents the international, national and local tools that measure corruption and good governance in Latin America. The mapping covers close to 100 tools in 17 countries in Latin America, including:...
- Rights-based approach to monitoring human rights
- J. Theis / Child Rights Information Network, 2003
- This paper proposes a rights-based approach to monitoring changes in human and children’s rights, accountability, participation and equity by measuring different dimensions of change: changes in people’s lives, in policies...
- Lessons from UK for policy making in developing countries
- S. Sutcliffe; J. Court / Overseas Development Institute, 2006
- Over the last decade the UK government has been promoting the concept of ‘evidence-based policy’ (EBP). This toolkit aims to identify lessons and approaches from EBP in the UK, which may be valuable for developing countrie...
- Framework for developing right to water indicators
- Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2005
- This issue paper describes the start of an international process to develop right to water indicators that can be used by a variety of actors to make their monitoring processes more consistent, rigorous and transparent. Such actors in...
- New method to construct measures of women's empowerment
- J. Williams / Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, 2005
- This paper develops a new method for constructing measures of gender and women’s empowerment with cross-sectional survey data. The paper first re-conceptualises gender and women’s empowerment for measurement pu...
- Questioning the use of indicators
- C Whitehouse / MiniAid, 2004
- All leading international aid and development institutions emphasise accountability, transparency and the introduction of logical frame approaches. The focus of this paper is on what some have claimed to be a key element of this appro...
- What is driving change?
- D. Warrener / Overseas Development Institute, 2004
- This paper sets out an overview of DFID’s recently developed ‘Drivers of Change’ (DoC) approach, developed to address how DFID can interact with the ‘politics of development’. The paper draws o...
- Government performance and satisfaction with democracy in Senegal
- L. Wantchekon; P. Ngomo; B. Sall / Afrobarometer, 2007
- Previous analyses of citizens’ perceptions of democracy in Senegal have largely focused on elite views. This study seeks to present perspectives of democracy from the point of view of ordinary Senegalese citizens. Th...
- Indicators to measure progress towards security
- Vera Institute of Justice, 2003
- This guide describes the process of choosing appropriate indicators for measuring progress towards safety and justice. It is written for managers responsible for improving the delivery of safety, security, and access to justice in any...
- Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIF)
- The Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) is a political science research centre.
- GATEWAY
- GATEWAY focus is on collecting, sharing and expanding knowledge on corruption assessment. It aims to allow those who wish to measure corruption to match their needs with existing diagnostic tools. The project involves: Collecting information on existing corruption assessment methods and tools; Providing tool users with a better understanding of...
- MiniAid (MiniAid)
- African Community of Practice (AFCOP)
- AfCop's mission is to build African capacity to manage for development results through sharing experiences, networking and building strong learning relationships between practitioners in Africa and around the world. Its members bring this dialogue and knowledge-sharing to their countries through national AfCoP chapters across the continent.
- Open Budget Initiative (OBI)
- The Open Budget Initiative (Initiative) is a global research and advocacy program which seeks to promote public access to budget information and the adoption of accountable budget systems. IBP launched the Initiative with the Open Budget Survey—an analysis and survey that evaluates whether governments give the public access to budget information and opportunities to participate i...
- Localis (http://localis.org.uk/)
- Localis is an independent think-tank based in Westminster, dedicated to issues related to local government and localism. Since its formation it has produced research on a variety of issues including housing, the reform of regional government, innovation in services and local government finance.
- Local government of Rwanda
- Local government of Rwanda site. Declares as it's mission statement: 'Promoting the well-being of the population by good governance, community development and social affairs.
- Research Programme on Democracy (Democracy as Idea and Practice)
- Research Programme on Democracy (Democracy as Idea and Practice) is based at the University of Oslo. (website under construction - more details to follow)
