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It measures the quality of public services, civil service, policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of a government's commitment to improving or maintaining these aspects. The index includes 193 countries, each scored from -2.5 (less effective) to 2.5 (more effective). [1] It is part of a broader set of government quality ...
These indicators are also well correlated with other indicators of good governance indicating that any issues present may be present in all governance indicators. [12] [13] [14] These indicators also have credibility due to their wide use in academia, international development, and business.
Credibility, transparency and reputation: e.g. environmental statement, key performance indicators, verification and validation through independent environmental verifiers. Employee empowerment and motivation: e.g. improved involvement of staff, higher awareness, often leading to innovations.
Credibility dates back to Aristotle's theory of Rhetoric.Aristotle defines rhetoric as the ability to see what is possibly persuasive in every situation. He divided the means of persuasion into three categories, namely Ethos (the source's credibility), Pathos (the emotional or motivational appeals), and Logos (the logic used to support a claim), which he believed have the capacity to influence ...
According to the manifesto, "Science and technology indicators are prone to conceptual ambiguity and uncertainty and require strong assumptions that are not universally accepted. The meaning of citation counts, for example, has long been debated. Thus, best practice uses multiple indicators to provide a more robust and pluralistic picture." [8]
[3] [4] According to Ewen Montagu, John Godfrey devised this system when he was director of the Naval Intelligence Division (N.I.D.) around the time of World War II. [5] The system employed by the United States Armed Forces rates the reliability of the source as well as the information. The source reliability is rated between A (history of ...
Meedan co-founded the Credibility Indicators Working Group, with Hacks/Hackers. The project had four core aims: to develop the framework of credibility indicators to test; to refine the process of credibility indicator development through testing and annotating a wide variety of articles; to evaluate the training data developed through these ...
Credibility is a key component of coercion (i.e. compellence and deterrence), as well as the functioning of military alliances. [2] Credibility is related to concepts such as reputation (how past behavior shapes perceptions of an actor's tendencies) [3] [4] and resolve (the willingness to stand firm while incurring costs).