Response to 'What Do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?'

• Tác giả: Daniel Kaufmann
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 341.26 +States
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 312642
• Chủ đề: 1. Formal and Informal Sectors; 2. Index Numbers and Aggregation; 3. leading indicators C430; 4. Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior D720; 5. Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government H110

Tóm tắt

Thomas (2009) dismisses the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) as an 'elaborate and unsupported hypothesis' because of the failure to demonstrate the 'construct validity' of these indicators. We argue that 'construct validity' is not a useful tool to assess the merits of the WGI, and even if it were, Thomas provides no evidence of any practical consequences of failure to meet the criteria of construct validity.