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Author: Kevin Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-07-05
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0199658242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndicators and rankings are widely used by governments and organisations to assess the effectiveness, efficiency, and success of policy decisions. This book evaluates the creation of indicators, their impact on policy decisions, and the implications of their use.
Author: Oman Charles P.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2006-07-26
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 926402686X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study helps users find their way through the jungle of governance indicators, and shows how they tend to be widely misused both in international comparisons and in tracking changes in individual countries.
Author: Helmut K. Anheier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0192549073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs difficult as it might seem to define governance, it appears to be that much more difficult to measure it. Since the World Bank Institute launched the Worldwide Governance Indicators in the late 1990s, the governance indicators field has flourished and experienced significant advances in terms of methodology, data coverage and quality, and policy relevance. Other major initiatives have added to a momentum that propelled research on governance indicators seen in few other academic fields in the economic and social sciences. Given these developments and the prominence and policy relevance the field of governance indicator research has achieved, the time is ripe to take stock and ask what has been accomplished, what the shortcomings and potentials might be, and what steps present themselves as a way forward. This volume— the fifth edition in an annual series tackling different aspects of governance around the world— assesses what has been achieved, identifies strengths and weaknesses of current work, and points to issues that need to be tackled in order to advance the field, both in its academic importance as well as in its policy relevance. In short, the contributions to this volume explore the scope of existing governance indices and indicator frameworks, elaborate on current challenges in measuring and analysing governance, and consider how to overcome them.
Author: Daniel Kaufmann
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbstract: The authors report on the latest version of the worldwide governance indicators, covering 213 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance from 1996 until end-2005: voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violence, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption. The latest indicators are based on hundreds of variables and reflect the views of thousands of citizen and firm survey respondents and experts worldwide. Although global averages of governance display no marked trends during 1996-2005, nearly one-third of countries exhibit significant changes [for better or for worse] on at least one dimension of governance. Three new features distinguish this update. (1) The authors have moved to annual reporting of governance estimates. This update includes new governance estimates for 2003 and 2005, as well as minor backward revisions to biannual historical data for 1996-2004. (2) The authors are, for the first time, publishing the individual measures of governance from virtually every data source underlying the aggregate governance indicators. The ready availability of the individual data sources underlying the aggregate governance indicators is aimed at further enhancing the transparency of the methodology and of the resulting aggregate indicators, as well as helping data users and policymakers identify specific governance challenges in individual countries. (3) The authors present new evidence on the reliability of expert assessments of governance which, alongside survey responses, form part of the aggregate measures of governance.
Author: Sally Engle Merry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-05-26
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1107075203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis highly accessible book investigates the rankings that increasingly influence perceptions of countries' governance and civil rights.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2021-07-09
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9264921419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2021 edition includes input indicators on public finance and employment; process indicators include data on institutions, budgeting practices, human resources management, regulatory governance, public procurement, governance of infrastructure, public sector integrity, open government and digital government. Outcome indicators cover core government results (e.g. trust, political efficacy, inequality reduction) and indicators on access, responsiveness, quality and satisfaction for the education, health and justice sectors.
Author: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 110711392X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA passionate examination of why international anti-corruption fails to deliver results and how we should understand and build good governance.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2008-08-22
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9264043462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide for constructing and using composite indicators for policy makers, academics, the media and other interested parties. In particular, this handbook is concerned with indicators which compare and rank country performance.
Author: Daniel Kaufmann
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 7022309302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbstract: The Worldwide Governance Indicators, reporting estimates of six dimensions of governance for over 200 countries between 1996 and 2005, have become widely used among policymakers and academics. They have also attracted some explicit written criticisms. In this short paper the authors synthesize 11 critiques offered by four recent papers. They then refute them as either conceptually incorrect or empirically unsubstantiated.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-03-21
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9264292659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree years after the adoption of the OECD Water Governance Principles, this report takes stock of their use and evolving practices, and provides an indicator framework building on lessons learned from their implementation in different countries and contexts.
