transparency measures is presented. The chapter then concludes with a call for a global compact on governance and anti …A number of popular notions and outright myths on governance and corruption are addressed in this chapter. We … distinguish clearly between governance and anti-corruption, while probing the links between both notions. In so doing we challenge …

This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time … of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources constructed by 18 different organizations. We assign these individual … measures of governance to categories capturing key dimensions of governance, and use an unobserved components model to …

financing reform, and transparency in parliaments, the judiciary and the executive. Recommendations on governance strategies for … worldwide governance, and present recent empirical evidence. Focusing on defining and unbundling key governance components, such … and governance, in controlling corruption, and in improving institutional quality -- although there is clearly variance …

existing literature on transparency in finance and governance, indicates remaining knowledge gaps, and offers some hypothesis … select consequences of transparency for national-level and local governance, identifying some policy implications and …The study of transparency is increasingly a more topical, broadly relevant, but also more under-researched enterprise …

Drawing on an in-depth governance micro-survey of public officials in Bolivia, we address empirically the question of … the relative importance of the various determinants of governance. We find that commonly made inferences about policy … based on simple correlation can be highly misleading due to the high correlation between the various governance determinants …

. We study the conditions under which a state of law can be implemented under oligarchy, and when democratization is … necessary. Inequality in endowments and incomes prolongs the absence of good institutions and delays democratization. Conversely …

This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of … different groups may engage in violent conflict in order to become the ruler predicts a crucial role of the democratization … scenario. A peaceful democratization leads to democracies with a high degree of civil liberties, reflecting a social contract …

. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the Third Wave, we find evidence that the … effect of democratization is weaker than reported previously once one accounts for the incidence of conflict, while the … significantly reduce the incidence and onset of conflict, which suggests that part of the positive growth effect of democratization …