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Governance indicators
Coverage of Governance indicators in the Nexus archive.
- The mirage, the shadow and the resurrection: Here comes the Decoupling Sovereignty Index, By Max Amuchie
The article introduces the Decoupling Sovereignty Index, a new tool to measure the separation between formal and effective authority in states, addressing a gap left by existing indices like the Fragile States Index and Governance indicators. It highlights the need to quantify how far state authority has decayed beyond mere institutional performance or vulnerability.