Abstract
This essay may serve as an introduction to the measurement of governance. Its chief purpose is to acquaint the reader with the general and theoretical starting points of governance measuring (Chapters 1 and 2) and methodology with due accent on the potential problems thereof (Chapter 3).
The fourth chapter brings an overview of selected projects that measure various aspects of governance and their characteristic features (including the choice of approach, methodology, number of countries included in the project, and main indicators). The concluding chapter of the essay sums up the outcomes of numerous empirical studies that deal with connections and relationships between the qualities of governance, or rather its various aspects, and other societal phenomena.