The problem of improving indicative quality assessment of governance is explored. The reasons for certain difficulties in elaboration and implementation of the indicative assessment, and for the lack of integrated theoretical foundations of such evaluations, are given. The outlines of critics for quality assessment of governance based on data analysis are discussed; the gaps and mistakes of these critics are highlighted.
On the ground of the examples of some positive and most elaborated practices of countries’ indicative assessment, the authors came to a conclusion that currently there are still significant shortcomings in the selection of indexes. Some statistical instruments for improvement of the indexes selection are introduced. The thesis of the article is that the implementation of these instruments enables the elimination of the duplicate indexes. The latter is shown through the example of WGI. In conclusion of the article, the possibility to create the unifi ed instrumental paradigm of “result-oriented state” based on the statistical instruments of quality assessment of governance relied on data analysis is considered.