The 'Failed State Index' Offers More than Just a Simple Ranking

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 525-530

  Carlsen, Lars ^a,b   Bruggemann, Rainer ^c  

^a Awareness Center Roskilde   (Denmark)

^b KAZAKH BRITISH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision support tools; Failed States Index; Hasse diagram technique; Indicator analyses; Multicriteria analyses; Partial order ranking; PyHasse

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RANKING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

EID: 84892480157     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-9999-6     Document Type: Article

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