Policy Evaluation via Composite Indexes: Qualitative Lessons from International Transparency Policy Indexes

Michener, Gregory

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.04.016

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“…Another major advantage of this index is that unlike many indices of governance it is not based on subjective views of experts, but rather on objective criteria. Even though the index is relatively new, it has already featured in several works in the literature as a measure of economic transparency (Graham, Johnston, & Kingsley, 2015;Hollyer, Rosendorff, & Vreeland, 2014bMichener, 2015;Rosendorff & Shin, 2012) and inspired more specialized indexes (Copelovitch, Gandrud, & Hallerberg, 2015;Williams, 2015). This present research will be the first to use the HRV index in order to measure the impact of EITI membership on overall transparency levels.…”

Section: Interrupted Time Series Designmentioning

confidence: 90%

Which transparency matters? Compliance with anti-corruption efforts in extractive industries

Öge

2016

Resources Policy

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Abstract:The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) sets the standard in revenue transparency in 46 countries and works under the assumption that compliance with the initiative will improve transparency and curb corruption in member states. However, individual case studies raise doubts about the success of the initiative. Building upon the literatures on compliance and governance, this paper analyzes the impact of EITI membership on transparency and corruption levels between 2006 and 2013. By using interrupted time series and panel data analyses, this research makes an original contribution to show that affiliation with the EITI immediately improved overall aggregate data disclosure in member countries in this period. At the same time, the paper also shows that perceptions of corruption did not change. This outcome questions the effectiveness of promoting only a narrow definition of transparency in extractive industries as a measure to prevent corruption. The results imply that a more comprehensive treatment of transparency might be necessary; specifically to distinguish regimes that use transparency reforms for public relations purposes as opposed to genuine reformers.

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Section: Interrupted Time Series Designmentioning

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Which transparency matters? Compliance with anti-corruption efforts in extractive industries

Öge

2016

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“…Subsequent work has to some extent narrowed in on two components of transparency: visibility and inferability [24]. As expressed in Gregory Michener's recent review of efforts to capture transparency empirically: BThe essential idea is that Btransparent^information should be visible in the sense of being complete and easily accessible and inferable in the sense of lending itself to accurate conclusions^( [25], 185; [24], 234). The stipulations of availability and accuracy are normatively compelling, perhaps even incontrovertible, yet still leave the definition quite vast.…”

Section: What Is Government Transparency?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The stipulations of availability and accuracy are normatively compelling, perhaps even incontrovertible, yet still leave the definition quite vast. In Michener's later piece [25], in which he reviews and critically evaluates international transparency policy indexes (ITPIS) often used in the policy community, he instead advances a case for methodological pluralism and a need to examine the considerable variation among the various institutions in a single polity, a call with which we agree and which necessitates a more refined theoretical apparatus.…”

Section: What Is Government Transparency?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Institutional capacity has been shown to vary considerably among state organizations, and it is therefore crucial to develop targeted measures of transparency that do not tap extensively into the aspects of state capacity not related to compiling and publishing information. Insum, measures that tap extensively into a state's capacity in a broad sense, or incorporate measures relating to accountability mechanisms or even citizens' confidence in government bodies, cannot be used to study the significance of transparency for other specific aspects of government performance without introducing risk of false positives, or type I errors [25].…”

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Transparency to curb corruption? Concepts, measures and empirical merit

Bauhr

Grimes

2017

Crime Law Soc Change

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Policymakers and researchers often cite the importance of government transparency for strengthening accountability, reducing corruption, and enhancing good governance. Yet despite the prevalence of such claims, definitional precision is lacking. As a consequence, approaches to measurement have often cast a wide net, in many cases tapping into the capacity of government institutions more generally, resulting in empirical findings that are ambiguous in terms of interpretation. This paper argues that the operationalization and measure of government transparency should be tailored to two main parameters of the phenomenon under investigation: the principals and purpose of the information. We advance a new measure of government transparency argued to be more suitable for the study of the role of government transparency with respect to probity. The data derive from a survey of public administration experts in 102 countries carried out by the Quality of Government Institute and allow for a more reliable analysis of the effects of transparency on reducing corruption, and the analyses suggest that an association indeed exists.

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“…In other words, it may happen that, although widely shared by international literature (Mike & Balas, 2015;Michener, 2015;De Vries, 2010;Carman, 2009;Amirkhanyan, 2008), some of the considered variables, theoretically incisive in terms of organization performance, in reality are rarely considered or even ignored in conducting public organizations. This consideration introduces the main limit of the present study, linkable to the lack of an empirical analysis of corporate performance plans, which, to be fair, should be examined in depth to allow for a possible further generalization of the findings emerged under a theoretical profile.…”

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Performance Evaluation and Measurement in Public Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review

Polese¹,

Troisi²,

Torre³

et al. 2016

IJBA

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The turbulence of the current competitive environment emphasizes the importance of the role played by performance measurement systems in generating an improvement of business results. Starting from this consideration, the work pursues a twofold goal: firstly, it tries to verify the existence and the degree of a research interest about this topic; secondly, it seeks to identify, in measurement and evaluation systems, which factors are capable of producing an effect on performances of public organizations. In order to well respond to the research purposes, the work begins with a systematic literature review, which highlights a growing attention of scholars on all those variables considered critical in conducting and managing public organizations. The study, highlighting the existence of six variables to be advantageously taken into account in managing public organizations, especially in light of the potential influence that they seem to exert on different types of business performances, could be considered as a useful tool for both practitioners (managers of public organizations) and scholars (professors, researchers, students, etc.) aimed at helping to become aware about the advantages arising from an adequate management of performances measures. The main research limitation is the lack of an empirical analysis of public companies performance plans, which should be thoroughly examined to allow a possible further generalization of the theoretical findings achieved.

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Policy Evaluation via Composite Indexes: Qualitative Lessons from International Transparency Policy Indexes

Cited by 39 publications

References 83 publications

Which transparency matters? Compliance with anti-corruption efforts in extractive industries

Which transparency matters? Compliance with anti-corruption efforts in extractive industries

Transparency to curb corruption? Concepts, measures and empirical merit

Performance Evaluation and Measurement in Public Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review

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