Evaluations elaborated
by experts
GOOD GOVERNANCE
AND CORRUPTION
- Quality of Government (QoG) Institute, University of Gothenburg
- Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), World Bank
- New Modes of Governance project, the European University Institute and its Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
- World Governance Assessment (WGA), the Overseas Development Institute
- Democratic Governance Assessment, the Global Programme on Capacity Development for Democratic Governance Assessments and Measurements, the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre
- Metagora (Measuring Human Rights, Democracy and Governance), PARIS21: The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century
- Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI) and Tocqueville Research Center (T-RC), Budapest
- Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), University of Mannheim
- Transparency International (TI)
- Transparência e Integridade, Associação Cívica – Transparency International Portugal
ELECTIONS
AND POLITICAL
PARTICIPATION
- Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union (PIREDEU), the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, the European University Institute
- Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES), University of Michigan
- Constituency-Level Elections Dataset (CLE), Washington University in St.Louis
- European Election Studies
- Election Studies, International Committee for Research into Elections and Representative Democracy (ICORE)
Data can be ordered via GESIS: http://www.gesis.org - European Voter Project and Database (Evoter), the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
- Administration and Cost of Elections project (ACE), the joint project of IDEA, International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA)
- IDEA Database of Electoral Systems and Voter-Turnout
- Women in Parliaments database, Inter-Parliamentary Union
CITIZENSHIP
AND POLITICAL
ATTITUDES
- IntUne (Integrated and United), University of Siena
- Civic Culture Survey, Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba
Data is available at GESIS: http://www.gesis.org - Civil Society Index (CSI), CIVICUS
- Four Nation Study
Data is available at GESIS: http://www.gesis.org - Political Action Survey
Data is available at GESIS: http://www.gesis.org - Voice of the People, Gallup International
http://www.voice-of-the-people.net
http://www.gallup-international.com
HUMAN
AND POLITICAL
RIGHTS
- Human Rights Indicators, the Danish Institute for Human Rights
- Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data project, Binghamton University
- Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA), Human Rights Impact Resource Centre
- Political Terror Scale (PTS)
- Amnesty International
- Amnistia Internacional
- World Wide Prison Brief, the International Centre for Prison Studies
SOCIAL INDICATORS
AND VALUES STUDIES
MEDIA FREEDOM
AND ACCESS
- Press Freedom Index, Reporters without Borders
- Freedom of the Press, Freedom House
- World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, International Telecommunication Union
- Media Sustainability Index (MSI), IREX
- Media and Democracy Monitor (MDM), NCCR – National Centre of Competence in Research
- Journalists Killed List, Committee to Protect Journalists