Book of Donmon Teith

Indicators and rankings are widely used by governments and organisations to assess the effectiveness, efficiency, and success of policy decisions. This book eva

This study helps users find their way through the jungle of governance indicators, and shows how they tend to be widely misused both in international comparison

This highly accessible book investigates the rankings that increasingly influence perceptions of countries' governance and civil rights.

The 2021 edition includes input indicators on public finance and employment; process indicators include data on institutions, budgeting practices, human resourc

The twenty-first century has seen a further dramatic increase in the use of quantitative knowledge for governing social life after its explosion in the 1980s. I