||**Appendix B: Components of Aggregate Governance Indicators in 2007**|
|---|---|
|**Table**|**B1: Voice and Accountability**|
|**Code**|**Cnt Mrd**|
||**ocep easue**|
|**Repr**|**esentative Sources**|
|**EIU**|Orderly transfers<br>|
||Vested interests<br>Accountability of Public Officials|
||<br>Human Rights|
||Freedom of association|
|**FRH**|_Civil liberties_: Freedom of speech, assembly, demonstration, religion, equal opportunity, excessive governmental intervention<br>|
||_Political Rights_: free and fair elections, representative legislative, free vote, political parties, no dominant group, respect for minorities|
|**FRP**|Freedom of the Press|
|**GCS**|<br>Newspapers can publish stories of their choosing without fear of censorship or retaliation|
||When deciding upon policies and contracts, Government officials favor well-connected firms<br>Effectiveness of national Parliament/Congress as a law making and oversight institution|
||<br>Passive voice|
|**GWP**|Confidence in honesty of elections|
|**HUM**|Travel: domestic and foreign travel restrictions<br>|
||Freedom of political participation<br>_Imprisonments:_Are there any imprisoned people because of their ethnicity, race, or their political, religious beliefs?<br>|
||Government censorship|
|**IPD**|Political rights and functioning of political institutions<br>Freedom of the press|
||<br>Freedom of association|
||Freedom of assembly and demonstration|
||Respect for minorities (ethnic, religious, linguistic, etc)|
||<br>Transparency of public action in the economic field|
||Transparency of economic policy (fiscal, taxation, monetary, exchange-rate, etc)|
||Award of public procurement contracts and delegation of public service|
||<br>Free movement of persons, information, etc|
|**PRS**|_MilitaryinPolitics_<br>Themilitaryarenotelectedbyanyonesotheirparticipationingovernmenteitherdirectorindirectreducesaccountability|
||<br> , , , <br>and therefore represents a risk. The threat of military intervention might lead as well to an anticipated potentially inefficient change in policy or<br>even in government.|
||_Democratic Accountability._ Quantifies how responsive government is to its people, on the basis that the less response there is the more likely is<br>that the government will fall, peacefully or violently.<br>It includes not only if free and fair elections are in place, but also how likely is the<br>government to remain in power|
|**RSF**|.<br>Press Freedom Index|
|**WMO**|_Institutional permanence:_An assessment of how mature and well-established the political system is.<br>|
||_Representativeness_:How well the population and organized interests can make their voices heard in the political system|
|**Non-**|**representative Sources**|
|**AEO**|Hardening of the regime<br>|
|**AFR**|Elections are free and fair|
|**BTI**|Stateness|
||Political Participation<br>Iiil ili|
||nsttutona Stabty<br>Political and Social Integration|
|**CCR**|<br>Civil Liberties<br>Accountability and public voice|
|**GII**|<br>Civil Society Organizations<br>Media|
||Public Access to Information|
||<br>Voting & Citizen Participation|
||Election Integrity<br>Plitil Fii|
||oca nancng<br>Pli d ll fk f l ii|
|**IFD**|ocy an ega ramewor or rura organzatons<br>Dialogue between government and rural organizations|
|**LBO**|<br>|
||Satisfaction with democracy|
||Trust in Parliament<br>|
|**MSI**|Media Sustainability Index|
|**OBI**|Open Budget Index|
|**VAB**|<br>Trust in Parliament|
||Satisfaction with democracy|
|**WCY**|Transparency of Government policy|

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