Governance indicators have come under fire in
recent years, especially the World Governance Indicators. Critics
present these…
“Turkish democracy is at a turning point,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced after winning a crucial vote in a referendum to…
On a recent Saturday morning, several hundred pro-democracy activists congregated in a Moscow square to protest government restrictions on…
The Survey points out promising directions for reform, including strengthening government capacities for formulating and implementing…
I no longer recognize Turkey, the country where I was raised and spend most of my time when I am not teaching in the U.S.
It wasn't so…
Good governance has grown rapidly to become a major ingredient in analyses of what’s missing in countries struggling for economic and…
Patronage—the discretionary allocation of public sector jobs—continues to be a dominant way government is staffed in most Latin American…
As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…