Successful factors and political challenges of the BRICS: introduction

In: Change ahead?: sustainable governance in the BRICS, S. 15-37

Abstract

"The following two sections outline the specific factors of success in development observed since the 1990s in the BRICS countries and elicit the political challenges and need for reform in each. The sections under 'Measuring Governance' discuss the theory of good governance and briefly introduce the SGI as an innovative instrument for empirically based research on governance. 'The 'BRICS' Governance Capacities in Cross-National Comparison' examines characteristics of governance in the BRICS empirically on the basis of this instrument. The final sections highlight key conclusions yielded by the comparative analysis." (contract)