Governance:: What It Is And Why We Should Care

Governance: What It Is and Why We Should Care Tony Angiletta, Morrison Curator for the Social Sciences Updated May 15, 2009

Six Simple Dicta on Searching the Web, Google, Socrates, Searchworks or any Index • 1. When in doubt, phrases in quotes • 2. When in doubt, capitalize Boolean • 3. When in doubt, use Advanced search • 4. Narrow humongous search results: by format (e.g., .pdf), by domain suffix (i.e., .edu, .gov, .org)

Some Definitions & Bibliographies • OED •

“By governance, we mean the processes and institutions, both formal and informal, that guide and restrain the collective activities of a group. Governance…by governments and…international organizations…private firms, associations of firms…NGOs…and associations of NGOs.” Nye & Donahue.

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Governance bibliography UN Public Administration Programme: Governance Indiana U. list of Global Studies Journals International Institute for Sustainable Development Governance themes UNESCAP. What is Good Governance?

Governance As Keyword, Topic or Title Word in 4 Indexes

Governance Activities (Nye and Donahue, Governance in a Globalizing World, p.13)

Private

Public Sector

Third Sector

Supranational TNCs

IGOs

NGOs

National

Firms

Central

Non-profits

Subnational

Local

Local

Local

Some associated terms • • • • • • • • • • •

Globalization Neo-liberalism Liberalization Democratization Privatization Cosmopolitanism Sovereignty Civil society and Social Capital Statism or state-centric Globalization from below vs. globalization from above Global governance

Governance Indicators • • • • • •

World Bank Institute Smart Indicators Transparency International Corruption Index Freedom House Index of Freedom Second-generation Governance Indicators Social Capital and Governance

Governance Indicators (cont’d) • • • •

“Failed States” index Everyday Democracy Index. The Website. Everyday Democracy Index. The Book. World Bank Indicators: Answering Critics

Stanford resources and beyond • Academic Universe/Lexis-Nexis • Business Source Complete for “corporate governance” • Alternative Press Index and IDS • Governance journal • UNHCR • Scout Report

Stanford resources and beyond

• Brookings Institution. Governance Research Topics. • Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (SIIS). On gove • CCDRL. Program on Sovereignty • IFPRI. “Good governance vs. Bad governance”. • Open Society Initiative. Law and Justice. • Open Society Initiative. Governance. • Social Capital Gateway

Stanford Indexes and Full-text • 1. Academic Universe (also listed as Lexis-Nexis). Statistical Universe. Power Tables. Terrorism. 207 tables on incidents, public attitudes and agency budgets. • 2. Academic Universe. Reference. Polls and Surveys. Terrorism. • 3. Polling the Nations, iPoll & Gallup Brain • 4. Academic Universe. Legal Research.

Stanford Indexes and Full-text (cont’d) • 5. EBSCO host Databases; search one or several databases at the same time. a. Academic Source Premier b. Business Source Complete c. ERIC d. Medline e. NTIS f. EconLit g. Environment Index

Stanford Indexes and Full-text (cont’d) • 6. Illumina. Search one or several databases at the same time. a. World Political Science Abstracts b. Sociological Abstracts c. Environmental Science & Pollution Mgt. d. PsycInfo and PsycArticles

Stanford Indexes and Full-text (cont’d) • 7. Social Sciences Citation Index. SSCI. • 8. PolicyFile and CIAO • 9. Newspaper databases/indexes (Global NewsBank, Historical NYT, Lexis-Nexis) • 10. Stanford Dissertations

Stanford Indexes and Full-text (cont’d) • 11. National and International Documents – a. Lexis-Nexis Congressional – b. Lexis-Nexis Statistical (ASI) – c. Lexis-Nexis Statistical (IIS) – d. Congressional Quarterly (CQ.com) & National Journal – e. Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports – f. AccessUN