The Palgrave Handbook of Indicators in Global Governance

Debora Valentina Malito is A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research interests focus on critical studies of liberal intervention, state building and global governance.Gaby Umbach is Founding Director of GlobalStat, the Database on Developments in a Globalised World, and Co-Director of research projects on measuring and indicators in global governance at the Global Governance Programme of the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Italy. She is Book Review Editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies. Nehal Bhuta is Professor of Public International Law at the European University Institute, Italy. He is a member of the editorial boards of the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, Constellations, and Humanity. He is also a Series Editor of The History and Theory of International Law. 

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.