2009 Methodology
Recommended Readings
- Arndt, Christiane and Charles Oman (2006). Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators (Paris: OECD Development Centre).
- A slim, highly readable volume arguing that composite perceptions-based indicators of governance in developing countries would be less open to abuse if such indices fully disclosed their methodology, scoring criteria, and countries' scores. Although the authors acknowledge that no single governance indicator is the answer, they nevertheless suggest that improving the transparency of governance indicators will go a long way towards making them more relevant to users.
- Bertok, Janos and Elodie Beth (2005). Public Sector Integrity: A Framework for Assessment (Paris: OECD).
- Provides a framework to assess institutional and legal measures that promote integrity and curb corruption in the public sector. The volume includes case studies of selected OECD country experiences with assessing the impact of anti-corruption and public integrity measures.
- Camerer, Marianne (2006). "Measuring Public Integrity," Journal of Democracy, vol. 17, no. 1: 152-165.
- An article by the co-founder of Global Integrity that provides a critical overview of the objectives and scoring methodology behind the Global Integrity Index.
- Duncan, Nick (2006). "The Non-Perception Based Measurement of Corruption: A Review of Issues and Methods from a Policy Perspective," in Measuring Corruption, Charles Sampford, Arthur Shacklock, Carmel Connors, and Fredrik Galtung, Eds. (Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing): 131-161.
- The author argues that while perceptions and aggregated methods of measuring corruption are partially useful, they should be flexible enough to incorporate qualitative approaches that provide contextual information and actionable data.
- Galtung, Fredrik (2006). "Measuring the Immeasurable: Boundaries and Functions of (Macro) Corruption Indices," in Measuring Corruption, Charles Sampford, Arthur Shacklock, Carmel Connors, and Fredrik Galtung, Eds. (Ashgate): 101-130.
- The author, a former Transparency International researcher and pioneer in the development of the Bribe Payers Index (BPI), addresses several criticisms of the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). He argues that the CPI should be radically revised and complemented by additional indicators.
- June, Raymond, Afroza Chowdhury, Nathaniel Heller, and Jonathan Werve (2008). A Users' Guide to Measuring Corruption (Oslo, Norway: United Nations Development Programme).
- Published jointly by Global Integrity and the United Nations Development Programme, A Users' Guide explores best practices for measuring corruption by combining a rigorous literature review with more than 30 original interviews with good governance and anti-corruption practitioners in government, the aid donor community, and civil society. Click here for more information.
- Munck, Gerado L (2009). Measuring Democracy: A Bridge Between Scholarship and Politics (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press).
- One of the finest deconstructions of existing democracy indicators. This volume includes valuable advice on how best to develop quantitative indicators to measure "fuzzy" social concepts such as "democracy." Munck's critique and analysis apply equally well to corruption and governance indicators. Read Global Integrity's review of the book here.
- Pope, Jeremy (2000). TI Source Book: Confronting Corruption: The Elements of a National Integrity System (Berlin: Transparency International).
- Established the analytic framework for a national integrity system intended to strengthen various "institutional pillars" ranging from the ombudsman and local government to media and the private sector. The "NIS" concept would later provide part the intellectual foundation for the Global Integrity approach to assessing governance and anti-corruption systems.
- Sik, Endre (2002). "The Bad, the Worse and the Worst: Guesstimating the Level of Corruption," in Political Corruption in Transition: A Skeptic's Handbook, Stephen Kotkin and Andras Sajo, Eds. (Budapest: Central European University Press): 91-113.
- A spirited and comprehensive critique of perceptions-based indices of corruption, which he labels "corruption guesstimation techniques."
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