SOME LINKS FOR SESSION 3, APRIL 13

- World Bank Governance Indicators. The WB's Worldwide Governace Indicators (WGI). Click on Access Governance Indicators, and pick a country.

- Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World report. See the Country Data Tables.

- World Economic Forum's chart on judicial independence.

- Freedom House's Freedom of the Press Survey.

- Ai Weiwei. David Piling: “Lunch with the FT: Ai Weiwei”, Financial Times, April 23, 2010. From one of his tweets: "No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace". See his work at Haus der Kunst in Munich [see]; he also consulted with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron for the design of the Olympic Stadion in Beijing (The Nest). Says Ai Weiwei:

CHINA IS A COLOURFUL COUNTRY AND THERE IS A LOT OF FREEDOM. YET THE LACK OF AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY AND STATE LIMITS ON FREE SPEECH ARE FATAL FLAWS. CHINA IS LIKE A RUNNER SPRINTING VERY FAST BUT WITH A HEART CONDITION.

[DOCUMENT: “Who is afraid of Ai Weiwei?”]

See also Edward MacMillan-Scott: “Ai Weiwei's arrest is part of China's new crackdown”, The Guardian.

- Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Video; Justice; Good government in the countryside; Tyranny.

- Francis Fukuyama. The Origins of Political Order, Vol. 1 (New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2011) [web] [Nicholas Wade: "From ‘End of History’ Author, a Look at the Beginning and Middle", The New York Times] [video].