Global initiatives of assessing governance
- 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 variation within the relevant univer...
- 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 contribute to an understanding of wh...
- World economic freedom advances steadily
- K.R. Holmes; E.J. Feulner; M.A. O’Grady (ed) / The Heritage Foundation, 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 Index is more than a simple ranking...
- 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 approaches to PCIA: thos...
- An index of governance quality
- J. Huther; A. Shah / World Bank, 1996
- Discussions and policy work regarding the role, scope and effectiveness of government have typically taken place in the absence of empirical measures of governance quality. This paper attempts to fill this void by developing a gauge o...
- What does World Governance Assessment offer?
- G. Hyden; K. Mease; M. Foresti / Overseas Development Institute, 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 2006. The report also...
- Civil society and governance in developing countries
- G Hyden; J Court; K Mease / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- The World Governance Survey (WGS), which seeks to generate reliable and valid data on key governance processes, covers six arenas of governance process. This paper presents the findings for the civil society arena in 16 developing cou...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 contribute to an understanding of wh...
- World economic freedom advances steadily
- K.R. Holmes; E.J. Feulner; M.A. O’Grady (ed) / The Heritage Foundation, 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 Index is more than a simple ranking...
- 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 approaches to PCIA: thos...
- An index of governance quality
- J. Huther; A. Shah / World Bank, 1996
- Discussions and policy work regarding the role, scope and effectiveness of government have typically taken place in the absence of empirical measures of governance quality. This paper attempts to fill this void by developing a gauge o...
- What does World Governance Assessment offer?
- G. Hyden; K. Mease; M. Foresti / Overseas Development Institute, 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 2006. The report also...
- Civil society and governance in developing countries
- G Hyden; J Court; K Mease / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- The World Governance Survey (WGS), which seeks to generate reliable and valid data on key governance processes, covers six arenas of governance process. This paper presents the findings for the civil society arena in 16 developing cou...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
