Chapter 12 Web Links

Chapter twelve: The Modern State

http://www2.ids.ac.uk/futurestate/
Work and publications of the Centre for the Future State, at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, which promotes research on how public authority can be strengthened and reconstituted to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.

http://www.qog.pol.gu.se/
Website of the Quality of Government Institute, offering a wide range of publications and data on the causes, consequences, and nature of impartial, uncorrupted, and competent government institutions.

http://www.transparency.org/
Website of Transparency International, offering information on global corruption, plus the widely used Corruption Perception Index.

http://www.worldbank.org/
Website of the World Bank, offering information and data on different aspects of state weakness and failure, including a large number of policy documents.