Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 Non-state actors as standard setters: framing the issue in an interdisciplinary fashion
- PART I New actors and processes in contemporary standard setting
- 2 Local and regional non-state actors on the margins of public policy in Africa
- 3 Conceptualising the use of public–private partnerships as a regulatory arrangement in critical information infrastructure protection
- 4 Standard setting at the cutting edge: an evidence-based typology for multi-stakeholder initiatives
- 5 New standards for and by private military companies?
- 6 Governance matters VII: aggregate and individual governance indicators 1996–2007
- 7 Contending with illicit power structures: a typology
- PART II The legitimacy and accountability of actors and standards
- PART III The authority and effectiveness of actors and standards
- Index
- References
6 - Governance matters VII: aggregate and individual governance indicators 1996–2007
from PART I - New actors and processes in contemporary standard setting
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 Non-state actors as standard setters: framing the issue in an interdisciplinary fashion
- PART I New actors and processes in contemporary standard setting
- 2 Local and regional non-state actors on the margins of public policy in Africa
- 3 Conceptualising the use of public–private partnerships as a regulatory arrangement in critical information infrastructure protection
- 4 Standard setting at the cutting edge: an evidence-based typology for multi-stakeholder initiatives
- 5 New standards for and by private military companies?
- 6 Governance matters VII: aggregate and individual governance indicators 1996–2007
- 7 Contending with illicit power structures: a typology
- PART II The legitimacy and accountability of actors and standards
- PART III The authority and effectiveness of actors and standards
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
This paper presents the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project. The indicators measure six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. They cover 212 countries and territories for 1996, 1998, 2000, and annually for 2002–2007. The indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 35 separate data sources constructed by 32 different organisations from around the world. We assign these individual measures to categories capturing these six dimensions of governance, and use an unobserved components model to construct six aggregate governance indicators in each period.
As in the past, we complement our estimates of governance for each country with margins of error that indicate the unavoidable uncertainty associated with measuring governance across countries. These margins of error have declined over time with the addition of new data sources to our aggregate indicators, and are substantially smaller than for any of the individual sources. We continue to encourage users of the governance indicators to take these margins of error into account when making comparisons of governance across countries, and within countries over time. In particular, a useful rule of thumb is that when confidence intervals for governance based on our reported margins of error overlap in comparisons of two countries, or a single country over time, this suggests that the data do not reveal statistically (or for that matter practically) significant differences in governance.
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- Non-State Actors as Standard Setters , pp. 146 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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