Governance Indicators Approaches, Progress, Promise

by Anheier, Helmut K.; Haber, Matthias; Kayser, Mark A.

• ISBN13: 9780198817062
• ISBN10: 0198817061
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-01-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Helmut K. Anheier, President and Professor of Sociology, Hertie School of Governance,Matthias Haber, Research Scientist, Hertie School of Governance,Mark A. Kayser, Professor of Applied Methods and Comparative Politics, Hertie School of Governance

Matthias Haber is Research Scientist for the Governance Report at the Hertie School of Governance and leader of the governance indicators team.

Mark A. Kayser is Professor of Applied Methods and Comparative Politics at the Hertie School of Governance.

The Hertie School of Governance is an international teaching and research centre of excellence in Berlin, Germany that prepares students for leadership positions in government, business, and civil society. An internationally-recruited faculty, interdisciplinary in outlook, research, and teaching, offers analytically-challenging and practice-oriented courses on governance, policy analysis, management, and leadership and helps students grow intellectually in a professional, research-intensive environment, characterised by public debate and engagement. The School was founded in 2003 as a project of the Hertie Foundation, which remains its major partner.

Table of Contents

1. 25 Years of Governance Indicators: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
Part I: What Are Indicators For and What Difference Do They Make?
2. A Comparative Classification and Assessment of Governance Indices, Matthias Haber and Olga Kononykhina
3. Beyond Measurement: What is Needed For Effective Governance and Anti-Corruption Reform, Frances Fukuyama and Francesca Recanatini
4. Can a Civilization Know Its Own Institutional Decline? A Tale of Indicators, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Roberto Martinez Barranco Kukutschka
Part II: Measuring and Communicating Governance Solutions
5. Measuring Governance: Objective and Perceptions-Based Governance Indicators, James Hollyer
6. Considerations on the Method of Constructing Governance Indices, Piero Stanig
7. Innovations in Objectively Measuring Corruption in Public Procurement, Mihaly Fazekas, Luciana Cingolani, and Bence Toth
8. The Opportunities and Limitations of Crowdsourcing Policy Indicators, David Osimo
9. The Reproducibility of Governance Indicators: Assessing Current Practices and Looking Forward, Christopher Gandrud
10. Governance Indicators and the Broken Feedback Loop: Leveraging Communications For Impact, Hazel Feigenblatt
Part III: The Way Forward
11. Measuring Governance: An Assessment of the Research Challenges, Mark Kayser
12. Addressing the Policy Challenge: Improving Supply Of and Meeting Demands for Sound Evidence, Rolf Alter