Uses and abuses of governance indicators

By Christian Arndt, C. Oman. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Measuring Corruption: A Comparison between the Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index and the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators (2009, unknown): “Another problem in this context is that there are four reasons why the errors of the used sources are not uncorrelated across sources and countries (Arndt and Oman 2006, 66): 1.”
• Reducing Child Undernutrition: Past Drivers and Priorities for the Post-MDG Era (2014, background): “Comparisons of the quality of the ICRG indicators with other indicators of governance can be found in Arndt and Oman (2006) and World Bank (2013d).”
• How (Not) to measure institutions (2012, background): “As discussed, many of the currently 18 Among the critics are Arndt and Oman (2006), Knack (2006), Thomas (2006), and Kurtz and Schrank (2007a, 2007b).”
• The Rule of Law and Economic Growth: Where are We? (2011, background): “In sorting out the determinants of growth over the very long run, analysts have had to grapple with the problem of the endogeneity of institutions, including those measuring the rule of law (Arndt & Oman, 2006).”
• Uncovering High-Level Corruption: Cross-National Objective Corruption Risk Indicators Using Public Procurement Data (2017, unknown): “11 Arndt and Oman 2006.”
• Resource curse: An analysis of causes, experiences and possible ways forward (2007, background): “The OECD has warned that many users ignore this and other serious problems (Arndt and Oman, 2006).”
• THE DETERMINANTS OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY. MORE ON THE DEBATE (2013, background): “As mentioned, the study of institutions faces the limited reliability of the available institutional quality indicators (Arndt and Oman, 2006).”
• “Close but no Cigar”: the measurement of corruption* (2014, background): “Particularly important is the finding that the indicators of the concept of corruption do not always relate systematically and reliably to how they have been defined conceptually (Arndt and Oman 2006; Langbein and Knack 2010, 351).”
• The effect of institutions on economic growth: A global analysis based on GMM dynamic panel estimation (2013, unknown): “First, the governance indicators are poorly identified, multi-faceted and lack proper theoretical basis as pointed out by Martin and Petra (2011), Laura and Knack (2010), Arndt and Oman (2006), Johnston (2007), and Thomas (2007).”
• Democratization and civil war: Empirical evidence (2010, background): “This basic variation is exacerbated if components of the indicator are based on perceptions, or if the indicator was not designed for comparability over time (Arndt & Oman, 2006).”