Assessing democracy

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An empirical analysis of African political party manifestos: ( S. Elischer (ed) / German Institute of Global and Area Studies , 2010); The third wave of democratisation in sub-Saharan Africa has led to a new interest in African political parties and their role in democratic consolidation. However few, if any, studies systematically c...
Effects of higher salaries on politicians' performance in Brazil: ( C. Ferraz (ed);F. Finanz (ed) / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2010); Governments that guarantee property rights and fight corruption are said to have the right incentives for economic prosperity. However, what determines the quality of government is less understood. Th...
The state of democracy and governance in Mauritius: ( Electoral Institute of Southern Africa , 2008); Mauritius is considered one of the best-governed, most stable and prosperous African countries. This paper provides an overview of the country, outlining the current economic situation, major politi...
Assessing the performance of Africa Union Member States: ( Associated Network for Social Accountability , 2010); This 2010 State of the Union Africa report assesses the continental performance of Member States against key governance, economic, social, civil and political policy standards and rights instruments o...
Access to information and transparency in the Judiciary: a guide to good practices from Latin America: ( A. Herrero;G. Lopez / Asociación por los Derechos Civiles / Association for Civil Rights , 2010); ...
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....
World economic freedom advances steadily: ( K.R. Holmes;E.J. Feulner;M.A. O’Grady (ed) / The Heritage Foundation , 2008); This is the 14th edition of The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom. The objective of the Index is to catalogue economies in a quantitative and rigorous manner. Yet the I...