Visualization: World Map of Democracy

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Del curso dictado por Universiteit Leiden

Political Economy of Institutions and Development

124 calificaciones

Universiteit Leiden

Political Economy of Institutions and Development

124 calificaciones

This course is part of the SDG initiative <http://www.sdginitiative.org/> addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, specifically for the following SDGs [1, 8, 10 and 16]. We hope you will join in our efforts to reach the SDG’s in small but measurable and actionable ways, cooperating with Development Done Differently. Expand your impact. You can create a better world. In today’s world, politics and economics are interconnected, but what is the nature of this connectivity? What are the power relationships that shape the world economy today and create new challenges for international institutions facing globalization? What makes some countries wealthier than others? Do we face cultural diversity or fragmentation? Does the type of governance effect economic development and social change or is it the other way around? How do we measure it and how trustworthy is the data? These issues and many more will be examined in this course along with a wide library of sources and a biting criticism.

De la lección

Governance

Governance. Argues that good governance provides a transparent and stable environment for risk assessment and decision-making and contributes to welfare and growth. The question is how to get it.

Good Governance7:40

Measuring Governance7:13

Democracy and Growth7:51

Visualization: World Map of Democracy2:42

Rule of Law and Growth5:41

Visualization: World Map of Rule of Law2:59

Corruption and Growth8:30

Visualization: World Map of Corruption2:15

Conoce a los instructores

Richard Thomas Griffiths
Prof. dr.
Faculty of Humanities

In the lecture we looked at the worlds level of democracy through the World Banks

governance indicator for voice and democracy.

We also looked at a couple of others.

We rejected the freedom house index, but we did have some sympathy for

the democracy index constructed by the economists intelligence unit.

This coverage was too wide.

So what we're going to do here is visualize the world using the World Bank

data, and show just one last map by way of comparison of the economist results.

The index is expressed in a range from minus 2.5 to plus 2.5,

the best performances being positive, the worse negative.

Zero represents the world average for 2012.

Data's available for all the 152 countries, so

the deciles are all 15, except the first two which is 16 each.

The first decile are all western states in Europe, North America, and Australasia.

Although the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom are all in

this decile, the remainder is dominated by wealthy, small or medium sized states.

In the second decile we still retain a European dominance.

The South America with Chile and Uruguay, and East Asia with Japan, Taiwan and

South Korea now appear.

The third decile increases the regional representation.

We see the large states like India and Brazil appear.

And towards the end of the range of the fourth decile,

we pass through the world average.

We'll now scroll through the rest without further comment.

But don't forget, you can pause the visualization whenever you wish.

The economist intelligence unit has constructed a composite index with five

components each counting for 20%.

As we said in the lecture, strictly speaking, only two of these,

electoral processes and political participation,

cover the same ground as the voice and accountability indicator.

So we shouldn't really expect a strict match between the two sets of results.

And if you look closely, there's some slippage between the decile.

But there's no real great shift in the picture.

Well, we hope you've enjoyed this visualization of world democracy.

Both sets of data are in the database accompanying the course.

And here you can see the differences in more detail.

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