Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) are a research dataset summarizing the views on the quality of governance provided by a large number of enterprises, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries.
The indicator on Government effectiveness captures perceptions of the quality of public services, the quality of the civil service and the degree of its independence from political pressures, the quality of policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of the government's commitment to such policies. This indicator can help us monitor whether democracy is functioning. Other potentially interesting WGI indicators include Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption.