Policy process

 

Policy formulation and implementation
	Role of different levels of government and legislative in policy formulation and implementation
	Role of societal actors: social partners and civil society organisations
	Role of citizens

 

Policy reform
	Role of different levels of government and legislative in policy reform
	Role of societal actors: social partners and civil society organisations
	Role of citizens

 

Policy evaluation
	Role of different levels of government and legislative in policy evaluation
	Role of societal actors: social partners and civil society organisations
	Role of citizens

 

Role of legislative
	Procedures over and beyond legislative, especially concerning minority rights within Parliament

 

Inter-governmental consultation
	Number and scope of inter-governmental consultations (between Member States and national / subnational levels)

 

Intra-governmental consultation
	Number and scope of intra-governmental consultations (among Ministries)

 

Consultation
	Role of consultation in legislation and in policy making by executive level.
	Number or percentage of policy decisions in which input from consultation was taken into account

 

Improved dissemination of information
	Laws and regulations requiring government information sharing on policies
	Number of percentage of occassions (for which it is required to do so) for which government agencies provide adequate notice of public hearings
	Perception of citizens concerning they have adequate information on key policy issues
	Perception of journalists concerning they have adequate information on key policy issues
	Number or percentage of well publicized government meetings open to citizens and citizen groups

 

Citizen participation and consultation
	Laws and regulations requiring government obtaining citizen input in form of public inquiries or other means
	Number of major government decisions in which input from participation mechanisms was used
	Examples of decisions taken at government level as a consequence of pressure from civil society
	Number or percentage of regional / local governments implementing investment policies with citizen input
	Number of joint commission meetings between government and civil society organisations
	Number of NGOs saying experienced a valid engagement with the executive branch in the process of policy formulation and implementation

 

Ethical standards
	Public perceptions of corruption
	Perceptions of corruption by businesses or firms involved in public procurement or state contracts
	Does polity have a code of conduct and other necessary supportive and legally binding rules and regulations requiring ethical behaviour of elected and government officials?
	Does polity have (a) an independent auditor's office that regularly audits government accounts; (b) inspector general office that regularly monitors government contracting and procurement practices; (c) office of government ethics to monitor implementation of code of ethics by government officials and those holding political office; (d) anti-corruption agency
	Adequate resources for above institutions
	Administrative capacity of above institutions
	Percent of government budget audited in previous year
	Number of NGOs with known capacity to monitor, analyse and publicise government corruption
	Quality of media investigation and reporting of corruption