The difficulty of measuring governance and stateness

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The work The difficulty of measuring governance and stateness represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The difficulty of measuring governance and stateness

Statement of responsibility

Debora Valentina Malito

Creator

• Malito, Debora Valentina

Contributor

• Robert Schuman Centre

Subject

• Performance standards
• Total quality management in government

Language

eng

Summary

Measures of governance and stateness have grown substantially in number over recent decade, and gained also greater importance in building public discourses and orienting decision-making processes. Yet there seems to be little agreement on what exactly these measures represent. This paper claims that the proliferation of metrics can only be understood against the conceptual hybridity and indeterminacy in which the notions of governance and stateness have entangled. To frame this creative disorder, the first part of the paper introduces the current debate on measuring governance and stateness. The second explores the sematic fields of the two concepts, while the third one provides an overview on existing measures and methodological questions. The fourth part explores normative demands and policy prescriptions linked to this production and the fifth section analyses in depth three different measures: The Rule of Law Index, the Sustainable Governance Indicators and the State Fragility Index. The sixth part concludes by summarising the relevance of exploring both conceptual and normative challenges in the use and production of these measures

Member of

• EUI working papers, RSC, 2015/38

Cataloging source

IT-FiEUI

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

• EUI working papers. RSC
• EUI papers
• Global Governance Programme

Series volume

• 2015/38
• 173