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How can the security sector in Honduras be best supported?: ( J. Schünemann (ed) / Fride , 2010); The citizens of Honduras have been plagued with insecurity since the 2009 coup d’état which brought to the fore a sustained crisis of security and legitimacy making the political equ...
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...
Setting the agenda: more power to the President?: ( L.A. Schwindt-Bayer / The Kellogg Institute , 2010); Presidents around the world have access to a wide range of legislative powers—veto power, decree power, and exclusive bill introduction powers. However, an important but often overlooked powe...
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. ...
Are Kenyan citizens able to participate in local governance?: ( W. Mitullah (ed) / Afrobarometer , 2010); Local governance has been glorified as a panacea for development because it is embedded in the decentralization debates, policies and programs across the African continent. However, many citizens are ...
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...
Exploring irregular modes of electioneering in Nigeria: ( M. Bratton / Afrobarometer , 2008); Vote buying and political intimidation are important, if epiphenomenal, dimensions of Nigerian election campaigns. According to survey-based estimates, fewer than one out of five Nigerians is perso...
Kenya and vote-buying: analysing the effects: ( E. Kramon / Afrobarometer , 2009); Vote-buying has and continues to be pervasive in many electoral regimes. Yet the relationship between vote-buying and citizen behavior, particularly in the context of the secret ballot, remains lar...