Governance Indicators: Approaches, Progress, Promise

This volume explore the scope of existing governance indices and indicator frameworks, elaborates on current challenges in measuring and analysing governance, and offer recommendations on how to overcome them.

Helmut K. Anheier, Professor of Sociology and past President, Hertie School of Governance, Matthias Haber, Research Scientist, Hertie School of Governance,Mark A. Kayser, Professor of Applied Methods and Comparative Politics, Hertie School of Governance

Helmut K. Anheier is Professor of Sociology and past President of the Hertie School of Governance.

Matthias Haber was (at the time of writing) Research Scientist for the Governance Report at the Hertie School of Governance and leader of the governance indicators team.

Mark A. Kayser is Professor of Applied Methods and Comparative Politics at the Hertie School of Governance.

The Hertie School of Governance is an international teaching and research centre of excellence in Berlin, Germany that prepares students for leadership positions in government, business, and civil society. An internationally-recruited faculty, interdisciplinary in outlook, research, and teaching, offers analytically-challenging and practice-oriented courses on governance, policy analysis, management, and leadership and helps students grow intellectually in a professional, research-intensive environment, characterised by public debate and engagement. The School was founded in 2003 as a project of the Hertie Foundation, which remains its major partner.