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Measuring Governance and Corruption through the Worldwide Governance Indicators: Critiques, Responses, and Ongoing Scholarly Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2009

Carmen R. Apaza
Carmen R. Apaza
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American University
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Abstract

Since 1996 the World Bank Institute and the Research Department of the World Bank have been developing six governance indicators called the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI). The six dimensions of governance include control of corruption, measuring perceptions on corruption. Based on the literature review as well as the data itself, this paper concludes that the conceptual and empirical issues on building governance indicators constitute an ongoing project.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 139 - 143
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2009

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