Institutional development
- Investment without democracy
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The paper argues that party institutionalisation allows autocratic rulers to make credible investment by designating party elite who are expected to invest, and by facilitating collective action by elite in the event of their expropriation.
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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...
- Enhancing the potential of ICTs for advancing democracy and empowerment in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
- ( Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , 2009)
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Access to and the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) have been shown to have the potential to help bring about economic development, poverty reduction, and democrat...
- The need for interaction between the customary criminal justice system and the formal system in Zambia
- ( Institute for Security Studies, South Africa , 2009)
- This paper reviews the Zambian criminal justice system and draws attention to the need for reforms in that will enhance human security. It notes that Zambia has made great progress since the re-establ...
- What factors lead to good quality institutions?
- ( E. S. Siba / School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg , 2008)
- There is a consensus that poor institutional quality is one of the main factors for economic stagnation of sub-Saharan African countries. There are many factors discussed in the literature that appare...
- Integrating climate policies: a challenge?
- ( I., H. Ahmad (ed) / Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations , 2009)
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The climate change debate raises the issue of the often identified requirement to incorporate climate policy into other policy sectors, often termed climate “mainstreaming” or climate p...
- Are the perception-based indicators of governance reliable?
- ( M. Kurtz;A. Schrank / European School on New Institutional Economics , 2008)
- While political scientists have traditionally deployed objective indicators of “political organization and administrative capacity”, including tax ratios, tax structures, political partici...
- 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...
- What needs to be done in establishing good governance in Africa?
- ( P. Chabal / South African Institute of International Affairs, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) , 2009)
- Informal, neo-patrimonial power structures partly explain why over 30 years of structural adjustment and calls for good governance have failed to inspire lasting change in Africa. What can be done?...
- Tools for teaching journalism in MENA
- ( UNESCO Communication and Information Sector (Webworld) , 2008)
- Following the publication by UNESCO of a Model Curricula for journalism education, this wiki platform is a tool to adapt the programme to teaching journalism in Arabic and French. Designed as a generi...
- Arab governments losing their grip on freedom of expression
- ( E. Zelaky;S. Sami;D. Ziada / The Initiative for an Open Arab Internet , 2007)
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Arab governments have maintained a tradition of restricting freedom of expression using national security and religious morals as grounds for censorship, and the ‘war on terror’ has giv...
