Global Justice Index Report 2021

Abstract

The Global Justice Index is a multiyear research project based at Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences that assesses the contributions made by each country to achieving greater global justice. In 2019, we completed the first-year measures, using the rankings of nation-states at the global level based on data from 2010 to 2017. This was published under the title of the Global Justice Index Report in Chinese Political Science Review (Vol. 5, No. 3, 2020). The Global Justice Index Report 2020 is the second annual report based on our work, analyzing data from 2010 to 2018, which was concluded in 2020, and published in Chinese Political Science Review (Vol. 6, No. 3, 2021). This is the third annual report in our series, and here, we provide the results with the rankings of promoting global justice by nation-states at the global level based on data in the year of 2019. The report broadly consists of four sections: introduction, findings, main results, and conclusion. In the introduction, we discuss the development of the conceptual framework and evaluative principles to justify our selection of the dimensions and indicators for measurement. Next, in the findings section, we report the data, indicators, and our results for each country for each of the 10 issues we identify, and provide regional comparisons for Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, and Oceania. In the following section, we present the main results for the global justice indices, and report the ranking of each country’s contribution to achieving greater global justice. In the final section, we discuss the applications and limitations of the index and potential further research trajectories.