The Palgrave Handbook of Indicators in Global Governance

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Malito, Debora Valentina (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Umbach, Gaby (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bhuta, Nehal (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Public policy.; Political science.; Public international law.; Statistics .; Public administration.; Public Policy.; Governance and Government.; Public International Law .; Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law.; Public Administration.

This volume brings together both academic and institutional perspectives to examine the production, use and contestation of indicators in global governance. It provides a unique and comprehensive guide to the latest research in the study of indicators and their use in global governance and policy ma...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction.- Section 1. Conceptualising and Contextualising Indicators as Instruments of (Global) Governance.- 1. The Governance of Nations: Definitions and Measures; Robert I. Rotberg
• 2. Corrupting the Research Agenda on Corruption: How Rankings Constitute and Limit our Understanding of Global Governance Challenges- The Case of the CPI; Alexander Cooley
• 3. From institutions to governance: some suggestions for a better measure of the quality of governance based on empirical analysis; José Antonio Alonso
• 4. Governance and Corruption Indicators: A Cultural Perspective; Ruby Gropas
• 5. Sustainability, Sustainability Assessment, and the Place of Fiscal Sustainability; Paul Burger
• 6. Sustainability, Governance and Indicators: Challenges for Democracy; Géraldine Thiry.- Section 2. Making Measures.- 7. Understanding governance and quality of state institutions using survey data: a novel approach and its research application; Francesca Recanatini
• 8. Fiscal sustainability and sustainable development at the United Nations - An indicator perspective; Matthias Bruckner
• 9. Government at a Glance - a dashboard approach; Zsuzanna Lonti
• 10. Measuring Governance: Transparency and Corruption; Robert Beschel
• 11. The European Commission's fiscal sustainability indicators and their use in the EU integrated cycle of economic policy coordination; Katia Berti
• 12. Measuring the Rule of Law: The WJP Rule of Law Index; Alejandro Ponce and Alyssa Dougherty
• 13. The Global Integrity Report and the Africa Integrity Indicators; Hazel Feigeinblatt 14. Developing an Indicator of Fiscal Sustainability for Africa; Moses Obinyeluaku
• 15. Moving beyond traditional indicators of fiscal sustainability: Examples from locally chosen indicators; Daphne Greenwood
• 16. Measuring Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Somaliland and Somalia; Abdullahi Odowa.- Section 3. Applying Measures: The Use and the Impact of Indicators as ^l) Governance.- 17. Corruption Indicators In the Local Legal/Political Landscape: Reflections from Albania; Smoki Musaraj
• 18. Activism through numbers? The Corruption Perception Index and the use of indicators by civil society organisations; Rene Uruena
• 19. Measuring Corruption in India: A Work in Slow Progress; T.R.Raghunandan
• 20. Citizen-centric indicators: Measuring governance by listening to people; Maksym Ivanyna and Anwar Shah
• 21. Analysing the Use of Sustainability Indicators; Stephen Morse
• 22. Sustainability of public debt: a dangerous obsession?; Christophe Blot
• Conclusions.