An Innovative Model Based on Carvalho Rodrigues's Entropy to Assess Governance in Africa: A Guinea-Bissau Case Study

João Serras, Paulo Morgado, Jorge Malheiros

2025

Abstract

Governance is an abstract, intersubjective, fluid concept, meaning that it is built upon shared beliefs, norms, and practices that are collectively agreed upon by a society, community, or group. It means different things to different cultural environments and scopes. Our current research addresses the challenge of obtaining insight into Governance's underlying mechanisms by using the concept of Cohesion derived by Carvalho Rodrigues from applying Shannon's Entropy. Our study is based on empirical data obtained from field observations across Guinea-Bissau. This paper presents our cohesion model and a first outlook for using it in the available data sets. It shows the impact of several potential Governance Determinants over a set of specific Governance Dimensions, demonstrating that Ethnicity Variation, local Community Morphology and the distance of Central Government facilities are the most impacting determinants for better cohesions.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Serras J., Morgado P. and Malheiros J. (2025). An Innovative Model Based on Carvalho Rodrigues's Entropy to Assess Governance in Africa: A Guinea-Bissau Case Study. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM; ISBN 978-989-758-741-2, SciTePress, pages 187-194. DOI: 10.5220/0013360400003935

in Bibtex Style

@conference{gistam25,
author={João Serras and Paulo Morgado and Jorge Malheiros},
title={An Innovative Model Based on Carvalho Rodrigues's Entropy to Assess Governance in Africa: A Guinea-Bissau Case Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM},
year={2025},
pages={187-194},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013360400003935},
isbn={978-989-758-741-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM
TI - An Innovative Model Based on Carvalho Rodrigues's Entropy to Assess Governance in Africa: A Guinea-Bissau Case Study
SN - 978-989-758-741-2
AU - Serras J.
AU - Morgado P.
AU - Malheiros J.
PY - 2025
SP - 187
EP - 194
DO - 10.5220/0013360400003935
PB - SciTePress