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Research
Theme 3 Assessing Good
Governance
A veritable explosion of
interest in the quality of
“governance” in the developing world
is driving a significant increase in
the use of governance indicators by
international investors, by
bilateral and multilateral
development co-operation agencies,
by academic researchers and by the
media. To illustrate, foreign Direct
Investments (FDI) decisions are
often based on assessments of the "quality"
of governance of countries and
international institutions, such as
the World Bank, and many bilateral
donors make their decisions on the
allocation of (development aid)
funds depending on the score of
countries on ”Good Governance
Indicators". Over the last decade,
quantifying the degree of good
governance of countries has
therefore been developed into a more
sophisticated exercise. However,
measuring “good governance” is far
from uncontroversial: the
most-widely used measurements are
plagued with many more pitfalls than
users tend to realize and there is
therefore a considerable misuse of
governance indicators. The
Maastricht Graduate School of
Governance in cooperation with the
OECD, has significantly contributed
to and weighted on the debate
concerning indicators and indices of
good governance.
While the use of governance
indicators has more important
consequences for developing
countries, because aid and
investment allocation decisions
depend on them, many cross-country
comparable governance indicators are
also available for OECD countries.
Sophisticated indicators are
developed in OECD countries in the
field of public management.
Examples of research projects within
the theme of Assessing Good
Governance are:
- Measuring access to justice
- Use and abuse of governance
indicators
- The politics of governance
ratings
- Institutional incentives and
corruption in social programmes
Current projects: At the
moment, this page is under
construction, please check regularly
for more information.
Publications:
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