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Does size affect the quality of governance?
25 September 2012 | blogpost, correlation, global index, integrity, new zealandIt seems appropriate when considering public sector integrity to lump the “old” Commonwealth together – to equate ethical standards in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – and to...
Study: Happiest countries have press freedom
27 August 2012 | blogpost, commentary, correlation, happiness, media, press freedom, research, study, well-beingFreedom of the press is a reliable indicator of a country’s happiness, journalism doctoral student Edson Tandoc Jr. concludes in a new study. Tandoc and Michigan State University’s Bruno Takahashi...
Blogpost: Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Governance Challenge
14 May 2012 | correlation, economic governance, financial, private sector, proxy, wealth fundAs the world economy emerges from the rubble of the financial crisis, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have consolidated their position as relevant players in global financial markets and beyond....
Commentary: Social Exclusion and Political Change
27 April 2012 | blogpost, commentary, correlation, dataset, fragility, global index, legitimacy, social accountability, social contract[...] Does the increase in social exclusion or its persistence lead to political instability? Two indices published regularly by Bertelsmann Stiftung, a private, independent German foundation and...
Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes about Democracy – Journalist's Resource: Research for Reporting, from Harvard Shorenstein Center
16 April 2012 | access-to-info, civ action, comparative, correlation, ict, publication, research, social accountability, study, technologyThe global relationship between the Internet and democracy has become a subject of great scholarly interest and debate. Prior research has focused on national Internet penetration and use rates and...
Publication: Education Inequality and Economic Growth: Framework for the Evaluation of Pakistan’s Education Policy (MPRA, 3 Nov 2010)
04 November 2010 | asia pacific, correlation, education, inequality, pakistanThis paper attempts to substantiate the Education-Growth relationship with a view to evaluate Pakistan’s Education Policy over the last two decades. With a view to the inadequacy of the generally...
Publication: Geography, Institutions and Human Development: A Cross-Country Investigation Using Bayesian Model Averaging (MRPA, 19 Sept 2010)
20 September 2010 | correlation, health, institutions, publicationThis paper examines the role of long standing institutions – identified through geography, disease ecology, colonial legacy, and some direct measures of political and economic governance – on human...
Publication: Cultural values and governance quality as correlates of road traffic fatalities: A nation level analysis (SafetyLit, 5 Sept 2010)
09 September 2010 | correlation, publication, safetyThis study investigated the relationships between governance quality, cultural dimensions and road traffic fatality rates in a sample of 46 countries. Government quality was measured with six World...
Publication: Does Democracy Facilitate the Economic Transition? An Empirical Study of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (UNPAN, 29 Aug 2010)
01 September 2010 | causality, cis, correlation, democracy, europe, reformThe authors analyze whether political freedom and civil liberties help or hinder economic liberalization, using panel data from 25 postcommunist liberalization, using panel data from 25 postcommunist...
Publication: Trustworthiness and economic performance (MPRA, 17 Aug 2010)
20 August 2010 | correlation, fiscal transparency, public admin, researchIntrinsically trustworthy agents never cheat. A society's willingness to trust and the quality of its institutions have their origins in the intrinsic trustworthiness of its citizens....