Governance Indicators: Approaches, Progress, Promise
Helmut K. Anheier, Matthias Haber, and Mark A. Kayser
Abstract
As 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 ... More
As 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.
Keywords:
governance,
indicators,
methodology,
policy relevance,
stocktaking,
challenges
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198817062 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2018 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198817062.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Helmut K. Anheier, editor
President and Professor of Sociology, Hertie School of Governance
Matthias Haber, editor
Research Scientist, Hertie School of Governance
Mark A. Kayser, editor
Professor of Applied Methods and Comparative Politics, Hertie School of Governance
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