Political parties
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- 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...
- 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 c...
Are political parties key to good governance?
- ( L. Wild;M. Foresti / Overseas Development Institute [ES] , 2010)
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Donors have at times been unrealistic about what is politically achievable, and have failed to recognise that imposing reforms without domestic support does not work. Political parties are often si...
- A sociological perspective on political opposition in sub-Saharan Africa
- ( K. Hulterstrom;A.Y. Kamete;H. Melber (ed) / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala , 2007)
- This document is a compilation of three research papers originally presented to the Research Committee on Comparative Sociology at the XVI World Congress of Sociology held in 2006. The first chapter e...
- Curbing money power in politics
- ( A. Fontana / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2007)
- Fostering disclosure of political finance information regarding public as well as private funds is key to address money’s undue influence over democratic processes. However, aid donors are still...
- How strong legislatures impact democracy?
- ( M. S. Fish / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2006)
- This essay proposes a new way of thinking about how political institutions influence democratisation, one that examines the capacity or power of specific offices. In particular, it focuses upon the st...
- Can aid build better political processes in new democracies?
- ( T. Carothers (ed) / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2008)
- Political parties in aid receiving new or struggling democracies are often enmeshed in corruption, either in their attempts to get into power or in their exercise of power. Western aid donors providin...
- How Morocco's leading Islamist party impacts its political environment?
- ( A. Hamzawy / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , 2008)
- This paper analyses the institutional and political conditions that shaped Morocco’s leading Islamist party—the Party for Justice and Development (PJD)— its policy priorities, and it...
- Explaining ethnic voting in Kenya
- ( M. S. Kimenyi;R. G. Romero / Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), University of Oxford , 2008)
- This study, using survey data on voter opinions and actual voter turnout in the Kenyan elections 2007, argues that ethnic voting can be explained on the basis of a minimax-regret strategy which sugges...
- Explaining the distributional divergence in China and Vietnam
- ( R. Abrami;E. Malesky;Y. Zheng / The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University , 2008)
- This article describes variation in authoritarian institutions by investigating the puzzle of divergent patterns of inequality in China and Vietnam, both high-growth single-party regimes. China‘...
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