Civil society

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Monitoring government policy in Latin America: ( C. Dixon;L. Valverdes;M. Carolina da Silva / International HIV/AIDS Alliance , 2011); Throughout Latin America a diverse range of interest groups form a vibrant and innovative civil society. These groups are the driving force behind progress towards greater transparency, decentraliz...
Analysing the impact of the new social media in the Arab world: ( J. Ghannam / Center for International Media Action , 2011); The Arab world has experienced an awakening of free expression that has now entered the body politic of Tunisia and Egypt and has helped break down the strangle hold of state sponsored media and in...
Assessing African government performance: 2010: ( N. Delapalme;H. Farhan;E. Gyimah-Boadi / Mo Ibrahim Foundation , 2010); This Index is ultimately aimed at engaging governments, parliaments, civil society, and citizens in a meaningful conversation about improving governance to the benefit of all Africans.

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Assessing Bolivia's representative, participatory and communitarian democracy: ( A. Schilling-Vacaflor (ed) / German Institute of Global and Area Studies , 2010); Over the past two decades, Latin American countries have adopted new constitutions in a wave of constitutional change. Bolivia’s new constitution defines the country as a representative, partici...
Malawi: citizens rate past and present Government performance: ( M.G. Tsoka / Afrobarometer , 2009); The performance of all governments is constantly being reviewed, reported on and rated on various fronts, including sectoral growth, overall gross domestic product (GDP) growth, inflation, exchange...
Analysing regionalism in Malawian elections: ( M.G. Tsoka / Afrobarometer , 2009); After Malawi’s seminal 1994 elections in which the country made the transition back to multiparty politics, commentators were alarmed at how regionalistic the voting pattern appeared to be. ...
Perceptions of democracy in sub-Saharan Africa: ( M. Bratton / Afrobarometer , 2010); Over the past twenty years, approaches to development in Africa have undergone a fundamental change.
Practitioners no longer regard development as a largely technical exercise. Economic growt...
Traditional leaders and elected officials in modern Africa: ( Afrobarometer , 2008); Modern African governments have struggled with how best to relate to traditional leaders. Their role in modern African democracies is complex and multifaceted with “traditionalists” on one...
The ethnic factor in Kenyan electoral choices: ( M. Bratton (ed);M. Kimenyi (ed) / Afrobarometer , 2008); The introduction of multiparty politics to Kenya in 1991 led to the population splintering along ethnic groupings. The first multiparty election in 1992 therefore rotated around ethnic alignments as w...
Exploring democratic choice: ( R. Sarsfield (ed);F. Echegaray (ed) / Afrobarometer , 2008); Standard arguments of rationality applied to individual political decisions do not take into account the plurality of forms of political reasoning in the process of preference formation. Scholars tend...