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Governance assessments for local stakeholders: What the World Governance Assessment offers
04 April 2013 | Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think TankThis report introduces the basic features of the World Governance Assessment (WGA) and highlights main findings of the second round of WGA that was...
What Do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?
04 November 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Human Rights, Justice, Academic/Think TankThis journal article from the European Journal of Development Research discusses the ‘construct validity’ of qualitative...
Response to ‘What do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?
04 November 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Human Rights, Justice, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis article, published in the European Journal for Development Research is a response to the article “What do the Worldwide...
Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index: Country Scores and Rankings
12 November 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Human Rights, Academic/Think TankBuilding on previously proposed methodology for an index of economic and social rights fulfillment, this paper presents country scores and...
So What Difference Does it Make? Mapping the Outcomes of Citizen Engagement
25 November 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Democracy, Academic/Think TankOver the last two decades, the idea that citizen engagement and participation can contribute to improved governance and development outcomes...
Institutionalisation Of Government Evaluation: Balancing Trade-Offs
13 October 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Public Administration, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyCarefully designed and implemented evaluations can improve people’s welfare, and enhance development effectiveness. This paper investigates...
Legal Framework and Citizen Participation in South Asia Regional Report
16 October 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Democracy, Local Governance and Decentralization, Political Parties, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThis document is part of a global research initiative undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies, the Ford Foundation and some regional...
Researching Civil Remedies for International Corruption: The Choice of the Functional Comparative Method
09 November 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Corruption, Academic/Think TankThis paper motivates the choice of the functional comparative method to research the issue of civil remedies for international corruption....
Internal Government Assessments of the Quality of Governance in China
16 May 2013 | Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Academic/Think TankAuthoritarian governments produce internal assessments of the quality of governance that allow them to identify and address brewing problems before...
Governance assessments and domestic accountability: feeding domestic debate and changing aid practices
04 November 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis paper follows on from recently completed research that investigated the impact of donor harmonisation on domestic processes of...