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    The Economist Intelligence Unit's index of democracy

    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 liberties are not thick enough. The index encompasses five categories:
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    Rethinking governance: empirical lessons challenge orthodoxy

    2003
    This discussion reviews key issues in worldwide governance, and presents recent empirical evidence.
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    The politics of governance ratings

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    Some international organisations, and most prominently the World Bank, play a leading role, both in the supply and use of cross-country governance ratings. This paper explains:
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    Global peace index: methodology, reports and findings

    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 what factors help create or sustain more peaceful societies.
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    2008 index of economic freedom

    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 based on economic theory and empirical study. It also identifies the variables that comprise economic freedom and analyses the interaction of freedom with wealth.
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    Governance assessments for local stakeholders: What the World Governance Assessment offers

    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.
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    Civil society and governance in 16 developing countries

    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 countries.
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    Tracking progress in democracy and governance around the world: lessons and methods

    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.
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    World e-parliament report 2008

    Global Centre for Information and Communication Technologies in Parliament, 2008
    The World e-Parliament Report 2008 presents a global assessment of the use of ICT by parliaments, based mainly on survey evidence. The report’s main objective is to help legislatures evaluate the potential benefits of technology for their work and establish key goals and priorities for exploiting this critical resource. Other objectives include:
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    Preliminary survey on donor use of governance assessments

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2009
    This preliminary survey is a desk study that compiles publicly available governance assessment documentation from international donor agencies and OECD member countries.

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