Policy Performance and Governance Capacities （政策绩效和治理能力）.pdf

Policy Performance and Governance Capacities in the OECD and EU Sustainable Governance Indicators 2015 Contents 4 Measuring Sustainable Governance 8 Policy Performance 12 Democracy 14 Governance 16 Rankings 18 SGI Website 22 Methodology 24 Survey Structure 25 SGI Board and Regional Coordinators 26 Resources Foreword This year marks the release of the fourth edition of this year are not refl ected in the new SGI of the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI). results. Given its dramatic social and economic Although many countries of the OECD and EU situation, Greece is again at the clear bottom seem to have gradually overcome the global of our country comparison. Relatively strong economic and fi nancial crisis, quite a few deteriorations in sustainable governance can be industrial nations are still faced with enormous observed in the case of Australia, which – like challenges and social dislocation as a result of the United States – ranks only in the lower third the crisis. The social situation, particularly in of the Policy Performance Index. Looking at the the southern European crisis countries is still quality of democracy, the continued deteriora- extremely worrying. tion in Hungary and Turkey is also worrying. The SGI project seeks to identify struc- Many countries of the OECD and EU now tural and procedural challenges to sustainable use the SGI for their own performance man- policy formulation and implementation whil