G20 Summit Performance, 2008

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Analysis

G20 Summit Performance, 2008–2016

G20 Research Group
January 6, 2017

Summit	Grade	Domestic political management			Deliberation			Direction setting
Summit	Grade	Attendance	# compliments	% members complimented	# days	# documents	# words	Stability	Inclusion	Democracy	Liberty
2008 Washington	A−	100%	0	0%	2	2	3,567	16	2	10	2
2009 London	A	100%	1	5%	2	3	6,155		6	9	0
2009 Pittsburgh	A−	100%	0	0%	2	2	9,257			28	1
2010 Toronto	A−	90%	8	15%	2	5	11,078			11	1
2010 Seoul	B	95%	5	15%	2	5	15,776	66	36	18	4
2011 Cannes	B	95%	11	35%	2	3	14,107	42	8	22	0
2012 Los Cabos	A−	95%	6	15%	2	2	12,682	43	23	31	3
2013 St. Petersburg	A	90%	15	55%	2	11	28,766	73	108	15	3
2014 Brisbane	B	90%	10	40%	2	5	9,111	10	12	1	0
2015 Antalya	B	90%	0	0%	2	6	5,983	13	22	0	2
2016 Hangzhou	B+	95%	7	25%	2	4	16,004	11	29	34	5
Total	N/A	N/A	63	N/A	22	48	132,486	361	279	179	21
Average	N/A	95%	5.73	19%	2	4.36	12,044	32.82	25.36	16.27	1.91

Summit	Decision making	Delivery		Development of global governance
	Decision making	Delivery		Internal		External		Engagement groups
	# commitments	Compliance	# Assessed	# references	Spread	# references	Spread	# references	Spread
2008 Washington	95	+0.50	8	0	4	39	11	0	0
2009 London	129	+0.17	6	12	4	120	27	0	0
2009 Pittsburgh	128	+0.31	16	47	4	115	26	0	0
2010 Toronto	61	+0.39	14	71	4	164	27	0	0
2010 Seoul	153	+0.34	41	99	4	237	31	0	0
2011 Cannes	282	+0.49	21	59	4	247	27	4	2
2012 Los Cabos	180	+0.54	19	65	4	138	20	7	2
2013 St. Petersburg	281	+0.37	23	190	4	237	27	9	5
2014 Brisbane	205	+0.46	24	39	4	42	12	0	0
2015 Antalya	198	+0.43	19	42	4	54	11	8	6
2016 Hangzhou	213	N/A	N/A	179	4	223	19	14	6
Total	1,926	N/A	191	803	44	1,616	238	42	21
Average	175.09	+0.40	19.10	73.00	4.00	146.91	21.64	3.82	1.91

Notes:
N/A = not applicable. Only documents issued at a summit in the leaders' name are included.
Grade is based on a scoring scheme created by John Kirton, available at https://www.g20.utoronto.ca/analysis/scoring.html.
Domestic political management: participation by G20 members and at least one representative from the European Union and excludes invited countries; compliments are references to full members in summit documents.
Deliberation: duration of the summit and the documents collectively released in the leaders' name at the summit.
Direction setting: number of statements of fact, causation and rectitude relating directly to open democracy and individual liberty.
Decision making: number of commitments as identified by the G20 Research Group.
Delivery: scores are measured on a scale from −1 (no compliance) to +1 (full compliance, or fulfilment of goal set out in commitment). Figures are cumulative scores based on compliance reports.
Development of global governance: internal are references to G20 institutions in summit documents; external are references to institutions outside the G20; engagement groups are references to engagement groups. Spread indicates the number of different institutions mentioned.

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