Democracy

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Rwanda joint governance assessment report: monitoring progress: ( A. Duncan (ed);G. Williams (ed);T. Sheehy (ed) / Local government of Rwanda , 2008); This report is an assessment of governance in Rwanda and is aimed at establishing a common understanding of governance progress, problems and priorities on the basis of agreed indicators and benchm...
Problem of measuring the quality of democracy in Latin America.: ( D. Altman;A. Perez-Linan / Rollins College , 2002); This article explores the problem of conceptualising and measuring the quality of democracy in Latin America. The study constructs summary measures of the quality of democracy in several ways, and sho...
Lack of constitutionalism hits African governance: ( Y. T u r i a n s k y i / South African Institute of International Affairs, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) , 2009); This paper analyses the discussion and recommendations about Africa's pressing political governance issues - including the separation of powers, election management and corruption - from the APRM r...
Handbook on women's participation in political parties: ( S. McCollom;K. Haffert;A. Kozma / National Democratic Institute , 2008); This handbook presents the specific elements and approaches that are most effective in encouraging women’s participation and leadership in political parties.

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Standards for assessing the performance of democratic legislatures: ( National Democratic Institute , 2007); Prepared by the National Democratic Institute (NDI), this document is intended as a basis for discussion within the international community regarding standards for the functioning of democratic legisl...
How to measure support for democratic institutions?: ( J.L. Gibson / , 2006); Whether democracy can take root and thrive depends on the commitments of ordinary citizens to the institutions and processes of democracy. However, there is no consensus on how best to measure mass su...
Full democracies, flawed democracies and hybrid regimes: ( L. Kekic / Economist Intelligence Unit , 2008); This document describes the Economist Intelligent Unit’s index of democracy. This index is based on view that measures of democracy that reflect the state of political freedoms and civil liberti...
Support for democracy is widespread in South Asia: ( P.R. de Souza;P. Suhas;Y. Yadav / Democracy Asia , 2008); This paper discusses results of the first-ever simultaneous survey of attitudes toward democracy in the five countries of South Asia - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka - based on a la...
Democracy measures: an overview of data sets: ( G.L. Munck / World Bank , 2003); This paper provides an overview of measures of democracy, governance and rule of law. The focus is on broad cross- national data sets, that is, those data sets that can offer a sense of the overall va...
An assessment of governance in India: ( J. Court / Overseas Development Institute [ES] , 2003); This paper presents the methodology and findings of a comprehensive governance assessment survey conducted in India as part of the World Governance Survey (WGS) project....