Assessing areas of governance
- 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 equilibrium very fragile. Levels of v...
- Towards better quality governance and conflict assessment tools
- J. Slotin (ed); V. Wyeth (ed); P. Romita (ed) / International Peace Institute, 2010
- In the recent past, donor governments and international organizations have come up with frameworks and tools to assess governance, conflict, and fragility. This report argues that these assessment tools are fraught with a multiplicity...
- 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. The paper provides findings such as ...
- Linking the rule of law and democratic governance: a guide
- G. Lecce; M. Miklaucic; T. Geiger / US Agency for International Development, 2008
- Donors are increasingly recognizing that promoting democratic governance (DG) rooted in the rule of law contributes to long-term, sustainable economic and social development. This guide focuses specifically on the link between the rul...
- Managing change - considering countries' capability
- N. Cantore; K. Ellis; I. Massa / Overseas Development Institute, 2011
- Countries are constantly confronted with financial crises, natural disasters or long-term widespread processes that affect their fundamental structure over time. It is important to understand the capability of a country to manage thes...
- Critiquing and contextualising the corruption concept
- M. Gephart (ed) / German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2009
- In the recent past, international organisations, governments,non-governmental organisations and academics have been paying increasing attention to corruption. There was initially consensus that corruption has negative effects on devel...
- The shortcomings of political party research and assistance
- G. Erdmann (ed) / German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2010
- Support for political parties is a recent, controversial component of international democracy assistance. This study attributes some of the shortcomings of political party aid to the poor relationship between assistance providers and ...
- 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, participatory and communitarian democracy...
- 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 compare political party manifestos....
- Assessing tax performance in developing countries
- C. Haldenwang; M. Lvanyna / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2010
- Governments, donors and international organisations need to be able to judge the performance of tax systems in a broader context of development, governance and international cooperation. The tax performance assessment (TPA) introduced...
- 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 equilibrium very fragile. Levels of v...
- Towards better quality governance and conflict assessment tools
- J. Slotin (ed); V. Wyeth (ed); P. Romita (ed) / International Peace Institute, 2010
- In the recent past, donor governments and international organizations have come up with frameworks and tools to assess governance, conflict, and fragility. This report argues that these assessment tools are fraught with a multiplicity...
- 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. The paper provides findings such as ...
- Linking the rule of law and democratic governance: a guide
- G. Lecce; M. Miklaucic; T. Geiger / US Agency for International Development, 2008
- Donors are increasingly recognizing that promoting democratic governance (DG) rooted in the rule of law contributes to long-term, sustainable economic and social development. This guide focuses specifically on the link between the rul...
- Managing change - considering countries' capability
- N. Cantore; K. Ellis; I. Massa / Overseas Development Institute, 2011
- Countries are constantly confronted with financial crises, natural disasters or long-term widespread processes that affect their fundamental structure over time. It is important to understand the capability of a country to manage thes...
- Critiquing and contextualising the corruption concept
- M. Gephart (ed) / German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2009
- In the recent past, international organisations, governments,non-governmental organisations and academics have been paying increasing attention to corruption. There was initially consensus that corruption has negative effects on devel...
- The shortcomings of political party research and assistance
- G. Erdmann (ed) / German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2010
- Support for political parties is a recent, controversial component of international democracy assistance. This study attributes some of the shortcomings of political party aid to the poor relationship between assistance providers and ...
- 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, participatory and communitarian democracy...
- 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 compare political party manifestos....
- Assessing tax performance in developing countries
- C. Haldenwang; M. Lvanyna / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2010
- Governments, donors and international organisations need to be able to judge the performance of tax systems in a broader context of development, governance and international cooperation. The tax performance assessment (TPA) introduced...
- Open Budget Initiative (OBI)
- The Open Budget Initiative (Initiative) is a global research and advocacy program which seeks to promote public access to budget information and the adoption of accountable budget systems. IBP launched the Initiative with the Open Budget Survey—an analysis and survey that evaluates whether governments give the public access to budget information and opportunities to participate i...
