There is a fair bit of work happening in regard to governance ratings, internationally.

The challenge is to find out what is useful to INVESTORS, and prepare such a set of indicators for Indian state governments. In addition, investors are interested in more fine-grained information regarding, for instance, facilities available to expats and their children. The indicator I am talking about is specifically designed to assist INVESTMENT decisions in different states in India.

African Development Bank

The African Development Bank governance rating system (detailed documentation here in PDF).

OECD

The full book for 2011: http://www.oecd.org/document/33/0,3746,en_2649_33735_43714657_1_1_1_1,00.html

2011: Government at a glance (PDF)

2009: Government at a glance (PDF)

Further research

Governance Indicators (Wikipedia)

Public Governance Indicators: A Literature Review (Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN, 2007) PDF

Rating Governance in Australia by Ken Coghill, Mohamed Ariff, On Kit Tam and Linda Wilkins PDF

The Politics of Governance Ratings by Christiane Arndt, International Public Management Journal, Vol. 11, Iss. 3, 2008

From a UN bibiography  – most of this is not of much use for my specific purpose. I'll remove irrelevant references from this list, time permitting.

GENERAL GOVERNANCE INDICATORS LITERATURE

Besançon, Marie. (September 2003). Good Governance Rankings: The Art of Measurement. World Peace Foundation. [PDF]

 

Berg-Schlosser, Dirk. Indicators of Democratization and Good Governance as Measures of the Quality of Democracy – A Critical Appraisal. Institute of Political Science. Philipps University. Acta Politica, Volume 39, Number 3, September 2004 , pp. 248-278(31)

 

Bollen, Kenneth A & Pazton, P. (2000). Subjective Measures of Liberal Democracy. Comparative Political Studies, Vol 33 No. 1, 58-86.

Bovaird, Tony (2003). Introduction & Evaluating the quality of public governance: indicators, models and methodologies. (PDF)

 

Bowman, Kirk, Lehoucq, Fabrice & Mahoney, James (2005). Measuring Political Democracy: Case Expertise, Data Adequacy and Central America. Comparative Political Studies. Vol. 38 No 8. October 2005. (PDF)

 

Busse, Matthias, Rouslan Jalilov, George Danielidze & Jenny Heithaus. (2004). Measuring Human Development and Gender Inequality: The HDI and GDI. Globalization and Human Development.

Camerer, Marianne (2006). Measuring Public Integrity. Journal of Democracy. Vol 17. No. 1. January 2006.

Herrera, Javier, Mireille Razafindrakoto & François Roubaud. (2005). Governance, Democracy and Poverty Reduction: Lessons drawn from household surveys in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. DIAL. http://www.dial.prd.fr/dialpublications/PDF/Doctravail/2005-12 english.pdf

 

Hyden, Goran, Julius Court & Kenneth Mease. (August 2002). Measuring Governance: Methodological Challenges. United Nations University – World Governance Survey Discussion Paper 2. http://www.odi.org.uk/wgagovernance/Docs/WGS-discussionPaper2.pdf

Hyden, Goran, Julius Court & Kenneth Mease. Making Sense of Governance: Empirical Evidence from Sixteen Developing Countries. ODI. Lynne Rienner Publishers. http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/governance.html

Kaufmann, Daniel, Francesca Recanatini & Sergiy Biletsky. (June 2002). Assessing Governance: Diagnostic Tools and Applied Methods for Capacity Building and Action Learning. The World Bank. http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/assessing/pdf/kaufrecanbiletassessing.pdf

 

Knack, Stephen, Mark Kugler & Nick Manning. (2003). Second-Generation Governance Indicators. International Review of Administrative Sciences. 69, 345-364. http://ras.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/69/3/345

 

Knack, Steve & Mark Kugler. (October 2002). Constructing an Index of Objective Indicators of Good Governance. PREM Public Sector Group. World Bank. http://www.bellanet.org/indicators/docs/2ndGen.Index(11.05.02).doc?ois=yes&template=bla nk.htm

 

Kovach, Hetty, Caroline Neligan & Simon Burall. Global Accountability Report 2003. One World Trust. http://www.congo‑

online.com/products/documents/library/Global%20Accountability%20Report.pdf

 

Landman, Todd & Julia Häusermann. (2003). Map-Making and Analysis of the Main International Initiatives on Developing Indicators on Democracy and Good Governance. University of Essex – Human Rights Centre. Commissioned by EUROSTAT. http://www.democraticaudit.com/download/Eurostat.doc

 

Linder, Anja & Carlos Santiso. (2003). Assessing the Predictive Powers of Country Risk Ratings and Governance Indicators. SAIS Working Paper Series. http://www.sais­jhu.edu/workingpapers/WP-02-02b.pdf

 

Malik, Adeel. (2002). State of the Art in Governance Indicators. Occasional Paper. Human Development Report Office.

http://hdr.undp.org/docs/publications/backgroundpapers/2002/Malik2002.pdf

 

Molutsi, P. (2002) Tracking Progress in Democracy and Governance around the World: Lessons and Methods. International IDEA

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/unpan005784.pdf

Munck, Gerardo L. (2003). Measures of Democracy, Governance and Rule of Law: An Overview of Cross-National Data Sets.

http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/sdvext.nsf/68ByDocName/Munck/$FILE/Munck+Paper.p df#search=' Measures%20of%20Democracy%2C%20Governance%20and%20Rule%20of%2 0Law

 

Nahem Joachim & Sudders, Matthew (2004). Governance Indicators: A Users Guide. http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/docs04/UserGuide.pdf

 

Norris, Pippa. (To be published 2006). Governance Indicators (Chapter 3) in Driving Democracy: Do Power Sharing Institutions Work, for publication by Cambridge University Press.

http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris/Acrobat/Driving%20Democracy/Chapter%203.pdf

 

Rotberg, Robert I. & Deborah L. West. (2004).The Good Governance Problem: Doing Something About It. World Peace Foundation Reports. 39. http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/BCSIAcontent/documents/WPF39.GovernanceRanking.pdf

 

Rotberg, Robert I. (2004). Strengthening Governance: Ranking Countries Would Help. The Washington Quarterly. 28, 71-81.http://www.twq.com/05winter/docs/05winter rotberg.pdf

Scott, Chris & Wilde, Alexandra. (May 2006). Measuring Democratic Governance – A framework for selecting pro-poor and gender sensitive indicators. UNDP

http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/docs06/Framework%20paper%20-%20entire%20paper.pdf

USAID. (1998). Handbook of Democracy and Governance Program Indicators. Centre for Democracy and Governance.

http://ftp.info.usaid.gov/ourwork/democracyandgovernance/publications/pdfs/pnacc390.pdf

 

Vanhanen, Tatu. (2000) A New Dataset for Measuring Democracy, 1810-1998. Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 37, No. 2, 251-265

http://jpr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/37/2/251

 

Whitehouse, Chris. The Ants and the Cockroach: A Challenge to the Use of Indicators. with response paper by Thomas Winderl. http://www.mande.co.uk/docs/Indicators%20- %20The%20Ants%20and%20the%20Cockroach. pdf

 

World Bank. (December 2002). Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance. Prem Notes. No.49 http://www1.worldbank.org/prem/PREMNotes/premnote49.pdf

 

GOVERNANCE INDICATORS LITERATURE BY THEME

Human Rights

Andreassen, Bård Anders & Hans-Otto Sano. (2004). What’s the Goal? What’s the Purpose? Observations on Human Rights Impact Assessment. Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. http://www.humanrights.uio.no/forskning/publ/rn/2004/0204.pdf

 

Filmer-Wilson, Emilie. (June 2005). An Introduction into the Use of Human Rights Indicators for Development Programmes. http://www.undg.org/documents/6135-

An Introduction into the Use of Human Rights Indicators for Development Programmes. doc

 

Kapoor, Ilan. (July 1996). Indicators for Programming in Human Rights and Democratic Development: A Preliminary Study. CIDA. http://www.acdi­cida.gc.ca/INET/IMAGES.NSF/vLUImages/HRDG/$file/INDICENG.pdf

 

Kaufmann, Daniel, Aart Kraay & Pablo Zoido-Lobaton. Aggregating Governance Indicators (1999). http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/pdf/aggind.pdf

 

Kaufmann, Daniel. (March 2004). Human Rights and Government: The Empirical Challenge. http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/pdf/humanrights.pdf

 

Kirby, Michael. (January 1998). Human Rights Indictors. Law and Justice Foundation New South Wales.

http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/resources/kirby/papers/19980118unesco.html

 

Landman, Todd. (March 2006). Indicators for Human Rights Based Approaches to Development in UNDP Programming – A Users Guide. UNDP http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/docs06/HRBA%20indicators%20guide.pdf

 

Landman, Todd. (November 2001). Measuring Human Rights and the Impact of Human Rights Policy. University of Essex. Conference on Human Rights Impact Assessment. http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~todd/Measuring%20Human%20Rights%20and%20the%20I mpact%20of%20Human%20Rights%20Policy.pdf#search='Measuring%20Human%20Right %20and%20the%20Impact%20of%20Human%20Rights%20Policy'

 

Landman, Todd. (November 2002). Measuring Human Rights: Principle, Practice, and Policy. University of Essex. http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~todd/M-HR­landman.pdf#search='Measuring%20Human%20Rights%3A%20Principle%2C%20Practice% 2C%20and'

 

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. (2005). Assessing the Effectiveness of National Human Rights Instruments.

http://www.ichrp.org/paperfiles/125p01.pdf#search='Assessing%20the%20Effectiveness  %20of%20National%20Human%20Rights%20Instru ments'

 

Sano, Hans-Otto & Lone Lindholt. (2000). Human Rights Indicators: Country data and methodology 2000. The Danish Institute for Human Rights. http://www.humanrights.dk/upload/application/c05c487f/indicator-full.pdf

 

Theis, Joachim. (2003). Rights-based Monitoring and Evaluation. A Discussion Paper. Save the Children.http://seapa.net/external/special/reports/Rightbased.pdf

 

Sida/ Overseas Development Institute. (2000). The Evaluability of Human Rights and Democracy Projects

http://www.odi.org.uk/pppg/activities/conceptsanalysis/RightsInAction/Publications/SIDAEv aluation. pdf#search='Planning %20and%20Assessing %20Human %20Rights%20Projects%3A'

 

Stiftung, Böll Heinrich. (October 2005). Monitoring Implementation of the Right to Water: A Framework for Developing Indicators. Global Issues Paper. http://www.boell.de/downloads/global/righttowaterindicators.pdf

 

The Danish Institute for Human Rights. Human Rights Indicators. http://www.humanrights.dk/departments/international/PA/Concept/Indicato/Ind2000/

 

The World Bank –NSF. The Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Database. http://ciri.binghamton.edu/

 

Thede, Nancy. (2000). Human Rights and Statistics – Some Reflections on the No-Man’s Land Between Concept and Indicator. Rights and Democracy. http://www.dd­rd.ca/frame2.iphtml?langue=0&menu=m01&urlpage=/english/commdoc/prelease1/burmaoc t18. htm

 

Theis, Joachim. (April 2003). Rights-based Monitoring and Evaluation: A Discussion Paper. UNDP. (2000).Using indicators for human rights accountability. Human Development Report. Chapter 5. http://www.undp.org/hdr2000/english/book/ch5.pdf

 

Wurth, Anna & Frauke Lisa Seidensticker. (2005). Indices, Benchmarks, and Indicators: Planning and Evaluating Human Rights Dialogues. http://files.institut-fuer­menschenrechte.de/488/d44v1file438eb21f40c35FLSAWHRDialoguesNov2005A4.p df

 

Justice

Armytage, Livingston. Devising Measures to Evaluate Judicial Reform. Brief. http://content.undp.org:80/go/practices/governance/Oslo-Public­Documents/download/?d id=359116&g11n.enc=ISO-8859-1&src=gov

 

Feld, Lars P. & Stefan Voigt. (February 2002). Economic Growth and Judicial Independence: Cross Country Evidence Using a New Set of Indicators. European Journal of Economic Policy. http://www.isnie.org/ISNIE03/papers03/voigt.pdf

 

Henderson, Keith, Violaine Autheman, Sandra Elena, Luis Ramirez-Daza & Carlos Hinojosa. (2003). Indicators for a State of the Judiciary Report: A Standardized Tool for Monitoring and Reporting on the Implementation of Key Judicial Reforms. IFES. http://www.ifes.org/publication/cab5bffb47f27e78d813aae5184b3d84/StateoftheJudiciary Report Indicators EN.pdf

 

La Salle Institute of Governance. (October 2003). Background Paper on Access to Justice Indicators in the Asia-Pacific Region. La Salle Institute of Governance – UNDP. http://content.undp.org:80/go/practices/governance/Oslo-Public‑Documents/download/?d id=359097&g11n.enc=ISO-8859-1&src=gov

The Access Initiative. (August 2004). Introductory Note Draft Access to Justice Indicators: Indicators For Review And Pilot Testing.

http://www.accessinitiative.org/justice/Draft%20Access%20to%20Justice%20Indicators.pdf

 

UNODCCP. (May 2001). Investigating the Links between Access to Justice and Governance Factors: An Objective Indicators’ Approach. UNODCCP http://www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/gpacpublications/cicp13.pdf

 

UNSTAT. (2003). Manual for the Development of A System of Criminal Justice Statistics. UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Statistics Division. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/publication/SeriesF/SeriesF89E.pdf

 

Vargas, Carmen. (March 2002). Development of Indicators for Access to Justice. Power Point presentation. http://www.undp.org/governance/cd/documents/54.ppt

 

Vera Institute of Justice. (April 2005). Justice Indicators. Vera Institute of Justice. http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/docs05/cross/Justice%20Indicators%20Background%20Pap er.pdf

 

Vera Institute of Justice. (November 2003). Measuring Progress toward Safety and Justice: A Global Guide to the Design of Performance Indicators across the Justice Sector. Vera Institute of Justice.

 

Decentralisation, Local and Urban Governance

Bracegirdle, Peter. (2003) International Experience in Municipal Performance Measurement Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Decentralization organized by the Center for Local and Regional Governance at the University of the Philippines. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/APCITY/UNPAN017423.pdf#search=  'international %20experience%20in %20mun ici pal%20performance'

 

Foneska, Leo. (2000). Indicator Tools for Assessment and Analysis of City Governance. World Bank Institute Urban and City Management Program. http://www1.worldbank.org/wbiep/decentralization/Library11.htm

 

Kaufmann, Daniel, Frannie Léautier & Massimo Mastruzzi. (2004). Governance and the City: An Empirical Exploration into Global Determinants of Urban Performance (Discussion Paper). http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/pdf/govcity.pdf

 

Soos, Gabor. Tocqueville Research Center. (2001). Indicators of Local Democratic Governance Project http://lgi.osi.hu/publications/2001/22/IOLDG.PDF

 

Urban Management Programme (2000). Assessing Urban Governance – Citizens’ Report Cards. http://www.serd.ait.ac.th/ump/newsletter99vol2%20no3.pdf#search='Opportunities%20and  %20Challenges%20in%20Assessing%20Governance%20and%20Human'

 

Westfall, Matthew & Victoria, de Villa. (2001). Urban Indicators for Managing Cities. Asian Development Bank.

http://www.kas.de/upload/dokumente/megacities/ADB.pdf#search='urban%20indicators%20 for%20managi ng%20cities'

 

Parliament

Fish, Steven M. Stronger Legislatures, Stronger Democracies. (January 2006). Journal of Democracy, Vol. 17. Number 1. January 2006. http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/gratis/Fish-17-

1. pdf#search='stronger%20legislatures%20fish'

 

Parliamentary Centre. Indicators of Parliamentary Performance in the Budget Process. http://www.parlcent.ca/indicators/budgetprocesse.php

 

Wehner, Joachim & Winnie Byanyima. (2004). Parliament, the Budget and Gender. IPU, UNDP, UNIFEM & WBI.

http://www.undp.org/governance/docs/Parl%20-%20Guide%20-%20parlbudgen.pdf

 

Gender

Beck, Tony. (June 1999). Gender Sensitive Indicators: A Reference Manual for Governments and Other Stakeholders.

http://www.thecommonwealth.org/sharedaspfiles/uploadedfiles/%7BD30AA2D0-B43E­405A-B2F0-BD270BCEFBA3%7D ugsi ref.pdf

 

Corner, Lorraine. (April 2005). Gender-sensitive and Pro-poor Indicators of Good Governance. UNDP Oslo Governance Centre.

http://www.undp.org/governance/docs/Gender%20-%20Pub%20-%20GenderIndicators.pdf

 

Huyer, Sophia & Gunnar Westholm. “Chapter Five – Collecting Gender-Disaggregated Data: Case Studies and Models.” Policy Toolkits in Gender, Science and Technology. UNESCO – GAB. http://gstgateway.wigsat.org/ta/data/Ch5.html

 

Jutting, Johannes P & Morrison, Christian (March 2006). Measuring Gender (In)Equality: Introducing the Gender, Institutions and Development Database (GID). OECD Working Paper No. 247.

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/17/49/36228820.pdf

 

Klasen, Stephan. (November 2004). Gender-related Indicators of Well-being. Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research.

http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/dps/dps2004/dp2004-005.pdf

 

Social Watch Research Team (2005). Gender and Poverty: A Case of Entwined Inequalities. http://www.socialwatch.org/en/informeImpreso/pdfs/genderpoverty2005eng.pdf

 

Corruption

Anand, Swamy, Knack, Stephen, Lee Young, and Omar, Azfar. Gender and Corruption (August 2000)

http://www.williams.edu/Economics/wp/Swamygender.pdf

 

Berg, Erland (2001). How Should Corruption be Measured. London School of Economics. http://members.lycos.co.uk/eberg/measuringcorruption.pdf#search='How%20Should%20C orruption%20be%20Measu red

 

Camerer, Marianne (2006). Measuring Public Integrity. Journal of Democracy. Volume 17, Number 1, January 2006, National Endowment for Democracy and the John Hopkins University Press.

http://www.globalintegrity.org/includes/JournalofDemocracy.pdf

 

Doig, Alan & McIvor Stephanie. National Integrity System Assessment (NISA): Qualitative Versus Quantitative Corruption Measurement http://www.gu.edu.au/centre/kceljag/nisa/doig.pdf#search='corruption%20measurement'

 

Galtung, Fredrik. (2005). Measuring the Immeasurable: Boundaries and Functions of (Macro) Corruption Indices. Tiri. http://www.tiri.org/documents/boundaries.pdf

 

Hungarian Gallop Institute (1999). Basic Methodological Aspects of Corruption Measurement: Lessons Learned From the Literature and the Pilot Study. http://www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/corruptionhungaryrapidassess.pdf#search='corruption% 20measurement'

 

Knack, Stephen & Azfar Omar. (2000). Are Larger Countries Really More Corrupt. The World Bank and University of Maryland.

http://wdsbeta.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2000/12/15/000 094946 00111605302947/Rendered/PDF/multi page.pdf

 

Picci, Lucio (2005). Corruption Measurement and Control: Towards a Unified Approach. Paper prepared for the IV Global Forum on Fighting Corruption. Brasilia, Brasil, June 2005. http://didattica.spbo.unibo.it/picci/brasilia.pdf#search='corruption%20measurement'

 

Reinikka, Ritva & Jakob Svensson. (June 2003). Survey Techniques to Measure and Explain Corruption. Utstein Anti-corruption Resource Centre. http://www.u4.no/document/showdoc.cfm?id=97

 

Seligson, Mitchell A. The Measurement and Impact of Corruption Victimisation: Survey Evidence from Latin America (2006). World Development Vol. 34. No. 2, pp381-404. http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/gTPvBm/Seligson%20The%20Measurement%20and%2 0Impact%20of%20Corruption%20World%20Development%202005. pdf

UNODC. (June 2004). The Anti-corruption Tool Kit. http://www.unodc.org/unodc/corruptiontoolkit.html

 

Van de Walle, Steven. Decontaminating Subjective Corruption Indicators (2005). Instituut voor de Overheid

http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0025631/pdf/ethicsconfVandewalle.pdf#search='Deconta mi nating%20Subjective%20Corruption %20Indicators

 

Access to Information

Green, Andrew & Jay Verkuilen. (2000). Democracy, Non-Profits and Information: Comparing Quantile and OLS Regression.

http://www.igpa.uillinois.edu/publications/workingPapers/WP86-  democracy.pdf#search='Democracy%2C%20Non Profits%20and%20Information%3A%20Co mparing%20Quantile%20and%20OLS%20Regression'

 

Puddephatt, Andrew. (April 2006). A Guide to Measuring the Impact of Right to Information Programmes. UNDP.

http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/docs06/A%20Guide%20to%20Measuring%20the%20Impac t%20of%20Right%20to%20Information%20Programmes%20-

%20final%20(11%2004%2006). pdf

 

The Access Initiative. (2003). Assessing Access to Information, Participation, and Justice for the Environment.

http://www.accessinitiative.org/HTG/TAIGuide.pdf

 

Evidence Based Policy Making

Court, Julius & Young, John (2004). Bridging Research and Policy in International Development: An Analytical and Practical Framework. RAPID Briefing Paper 1, Overseas Development Institute (ODI).

http://www.odi.org.uk/rapid/Publications/Documents/rapidbp1web.pdf#search='Bridging% 20Research%20and%20Policy%20in %20International%20Development%3A%20An%20Anal  ytical %20and%20Practical%3 B%20Framework'

 

Crewe, Emma & John Young. Bridging Research and Policy: Context, Evidence and Links. ODI. Working Paper 173. http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/workingpapers/wp173.pdf

 

Laforest, Rachel & Michael Orsini. Toward Evidence Based Politics: Implications for the Relationship between Public Servants and the Voluntary Sector. http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/campbell/sog-conf/papers/sog2004-laforest-orsini.pdf

 

Sanderson, Ian. (October 2000). Complexity, Evaluation and Evidence-Based Policy. European Evaluation Society.

http://www.europeanevaluation.org/docs/71sanderson.pdf#search='evidencebased%20poli cy%20maki ng%20governance

 

Scott, Christopher (March 2005). The Role of Statistics in Evidence-based Policy-making. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/MeasuringUptotheMeas urement Problem. pdf#search='The%20Role%20of%20Statistics%20in%20Evidencebased%  20Policymaking'

 

Start, Daniel & Hovland, Ingie (2004). Tools for Policy Impact: A Handbook for Researchers. Overseas Development Institute (ODI).

http://www.odi.org.uk/RAPID/Publications/Documents/Toolshandbookfinalweb.pdf#searc h='Tools%20for%20pol icy%20impact%3A%20a%20handbook

 

Sutcliffe, Sophie & Court, Julius (2006). A Toolkit for Progressive Policymakers in Developing Countries.ODI. http://www.odi.org.uk/Rapid/Publications/Documents/EBPtoolkitweb.pdf

 

GOVERNANCE RELATED INDEXES, DATABASES & DATASETS

Afrobarometer Surveys. http://www.afrobarometer.org/surveys.html  Centre for Global Development. Commitment to Development Index. http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/active/cdi

 

Bertelsmann Stiftung. The Bertelsmann Transformation Index http://www.bertelsmann­transformation-index.de/37.0.html?&L=1

 

Centre for Public Integrity. Public Integrity Index. http://www.publicintegrity.org/ga/ii.aspx

 

Centre for the Study of Civil War. Governance Datasets. http://www.polarizationandconflict.org/

 

Conflict Early Warning Systems (CEWS). Conflict Database. http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/cis/cews/htmlpages/conflictdatabase.htm

 

Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM). Polity IV Project: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions, 1800-2003 http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/polity/

 

Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM). State Failure Problem Set. http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/stfail/

 

CIVICUS Civil Society Index. http://www.civicus.org/new/default.asp

 

Committee to Protect Journalists. Attacks on the Press. http://www.cpj.org/  East Asia Barometer. http://eacsurvey.law.ntu.edu.tw/

 

Elections Process Information Collection (EPIC) Project. http://www.epicproject.org/ Eurobarometer (EB). http://www.gesis.org/en/dataservice/eurobarometer/

 

Freedom House. (2005). Freedom of the Press 2005.http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/pressurvey/fop05.pdf

 

Freedom House. Annual Survey of Freedom. http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/survey2005.htm

 

Havard University, John F Kennedy School of Government. (Pippa Norris). Sharad Global Democracy Datasets.

http://ksghome.harvard.edu/%7Epnorris/Data/Data.htm

 

Henisz University of Pennsylvania. The Political Constraint Index (POLCON) Dataset. http://www-management.wharton.upenn.edu/henisz/POLCON/ContactInfo.html

 

International IDEA & Stockholm University. Global Database of Quotas for Women. http://www.quotaproject.org/

 

International IDEA and Essex University – State of Democracy project http://www.idea.int/democracy/

 

International Crisis Group. CrisisWatch Database. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=2937&l=1#C1

 

International Institute for Strategic Studies. Armed Conflict Database. http://www.iiss.org/showpage.php?pageID=25

 

International Parliamentary Union. Women in Politics Bibliographic Database. http://www.ipu.org/bdf-e/BDFsearch.asp

 

IREX. Media Sustainability Index. http://www.irex.org/msi/

 

Yale University (Cheibub, José Antonio), Classifying Political Regimes: A Six-fold Classification of Democracies and Dictatorships.

http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7Ejac236/DATASETS.htm

 

Kurtzman Group. The Opacity Index. http://www.pwcglobal.com/extweb/ncsurvres.nsf/docid/22CA0D19E1D97D8A80256BA300353 91B

 

Latinobarometro. http://www.latinobarometro.org/

 

Minorities at Risk Data Set. CIDCM. http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/about.asp

 

Metagora – Tools and Frameworks for Measuring Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Project. http://www.metagora.org/html/index.html

 

Reporters Without Borders. World Press Freedom Ranking. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?idarticle=8247

 

Transparency International. Corruption Surveys and Indices. http://www.transparency.org/surveys/index.html#cpi

 

UNDP Human Development Report. Gender Empowerment Measure. http://www.sigov.si/umar/arhiv/og1003/ang/agem.pdf#search='Gender%20Empowerment% 20Measure.'

 

UN-Habitat. Urban Governance Index. http://www.unhabitat.org/campaigns/governance/activities6.asp

 

United Nations University. World Governance Assessment. http://www.odi.org.uk/wgagovernance/Dataset.html

 

World Bank Institute. Governance Matters datasets (1996 – 2004). http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/data.html

 

World Economic Forum. Global Governance Initiative. http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Global+Governance+Initiative

 

World Governance Assessment project http://www.odi.org.uk/wgagovernance/Index.html