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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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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...
Resource inequalities and political participation in Africa: ( A. Isaksson (ed) / Afrobarometer , 2010); Political equality is at the heart of democracy although the ‘one person one vote’ notion is not sufficient to ensure political equality in this sense. This paper explores political partic...
Testing the limits of public opinion data in the measurement of democratic quality: ( C. Logan (ed);R. Mattes (ed) / Afrobarometer , 2010); African governments arguably are deficient in democratizing their interactions with citizens through mechanisms of vertical accountability and responsiveness. Quality of democracy goes beyond the narr...
On measuring governance: framing issues for debate: ( D. Kaufmann (ed);A. Kraay (ed) / World Bank , 2007); ...
Assessing the impact of the Paris Declaration on governance assessments: ( Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2007); The demand for measuring democracy, human rights and governance is increasing from international development partners. This report is a record of the proceedings of a seminar which focused on gover...
Assessing governance quality using citizens’ evaluations: ( M. Ivanyna (ed);A. Shah (ed) / World Bank , 2009); For many years, there has been a proliferation of composite worldwide governance indicators designed to measure various aspects of governance quality for use by the development ai...
What is the state of reform in the Arab World?: ( B. Kodmani;S. Kawakibi / The Arab Reform Initiative , 2010); This report seeks to influence the process of democratic transition by providing an index that allows advocates of democracy in the Arab world to monitor the evolution of this process. It coul...
Pitfalls of public consultations: ( R. M a t t e s / South African Institute of International Affairs, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) , 2008); The opinions of the general public are as important as those of the elite if a country wishes to achieve a comprehensive self-assessment process, such as the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). B...
Voice of well-informed persons in governance assessment: ( J. Court;G. Hyden;K. Mease / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2002); This paper focuses on the methods used for collecting data in 22 countries for the World Governance Survey (WGS)....