Democratisation
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- The supervision of security should be the responsibility of civilians
- ( C. Contreras (ed) / La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) , 2007)
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The goal of this report is to contribute to an understanding of the political and institutional processes taking place in Latin America related to the security sector since the region's wide-s...
- Rebuilding democracy: elections in post-conflict settings
- ( Carlos Valenzuela / Public Broadcasting Service , 2008)
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This Point of View interview is conducted with Carlos Valenzuela, who headed the Independent Election Commission of the UN during the 2005 elections in Iraq. He responds to questions about the day-...
- 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...
- Monitoring democracy: consensus and challenges
- ( G.L. Munck / School of International Relations, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California , 2006)
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The monitoring of democracy is both desirable and doable. Yet, as proposals to monitor democracy have gained prominence and as the political stakes of such exercises have become more evident, criti...
- Positive effects of direct democracy
- ( B. Kaufmann;R. Büchi;N. Braun / Initiative & Referendum Institute – Europe , 2008)
- Representative democracy is being reformed and modernised throughout the world. An increasing numbers of countries in the world have begun to use referendums in addition to elections. More and more pe...
- 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...
- Can ICT foster social and political freedoms in the Middle East?
- ( F. Shirazi / Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries , 2008)
- This paper examines the extent to which ICT expansion is impacting social and political freedoms in ten countries of the Middle Eastern region, defined as non-democratic states. It investigates two pr...
- 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...
- An evaluation of governance structures in Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe
- ( H. Melber (ed);G. Totemeyer;C.J. Makgala;S.J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala , 2007)
- This document is composed of three papers: the contributions on Namibia and Botswana look at the extent to which these countries are able to set standards in terms of well functioning democracies; the...
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