ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to analyze regional and country-level governance trends over recent decades in order to better understand contemporary patterns of the unfolding and interaction of the security, capacity, and inclusion transitions. In the process, we also introduce the major empirical data series and indicators that help us assess the condition of countries on each dimension. Understanding something about these series and their strengths and weaknesses with respect to empirical assessments of governance will also help us lay a foundation for Chapters 3 and 4, in which we explore understandings of the drivers of governance transitions and our efforts to model and forecast them.1
