Rethinking Governance: Empirical Lessons Challenge Orthodoxy

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The challenge of poor governance and corruption (2005, methodology): “The aggregation principles of the World Bank index are explained in Kaufmann et al. (1999). They allow information from sub-series covering only a few countries when constructing the aggregate index covering most countries in the world.”
The Rule of Law and Economic Development (2008, background): “In a review of the relationship between legal origins and his own extensive data set on governance indicators, Kaufmann (2003b) notes that there is some correlation in the total data set of 200 countries between legal origins and his governance indicators.”
Relevance of education and intelligence for the political development of nations: Democracy, rule of law and political liberty (2008, unknown): “…for politics not only at the individual level , but also at the macro-social level : intelligence is required for institutionalized political decision-making, effective administration, the legal system, bureaucracy, and economic institutions ( “ government effectiveness ” ; Kaufmann, 2003).”