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

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 merit...

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Main Authors: Kaufmann, Daniel, Kraay, Aart, Mastruzzi, Massimo
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5897