Variable: Societal Accountability Sub-index

QoG Code: (bgi_sas)


Dataset: The Berggruen Governance Index (BGI)

Description:

Societal (diagonal) accountability captures the extent to which civil society organizations and the media are able to hold the government accountable. The assumption is that informal mechanisms such as street-level mobilization and investigative journalism can increase institutional and electoral accountability.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2025-12-06
Last updated by source: 2025-12-08


Categories:

Quality of Government


Find this variable in:

OECD Cross-section - 2026 OECD Time-series - 2026 Standard Cross-section - 2026 Standard Time-series - 2026 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 143
Standard time-series: 144
OECD cross-section: 32
OECD time-series: 32


This variable has information for these countries:

Click here to see the full list of countries



This variable has information from the year 2000 to the year 2021