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    Strengthening African Governance: index of African governance result and rankings

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009
    The 2009 Index of African Governance seeks to measure the degree to which five categories of political goods - Safety and Security; Rule of Law, Transparency, and Corruption; Participation and Human Rights; Sustainable Economic Opportunity; and Human Development - are provided within Africa’s 53 countries.
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    Using representative opinion surveys in the African Peer Review Mechanism Process

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 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). But gathering and measuring the opinion of ordinary people is not a simple matter. The author of this paper warns against the traps and pitfalls awaiting the unwary.
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    Payment and independence: does a client relationship with government inhibit ‘think-tank’ criticism?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    This paper analyses the relationship between privately and publicly funded policy research institutions ('think-tanks') and government, and the extent to which that relationship may change commensurate with the extent of government funding. It investigates the extent of the real or notional independence of think-tanks, drawing on the Nigerian experience.
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    Common African political governance issues: lessons from six early APRM reports

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    This paper analyses the discussion and recommendations about Africa's pressing political governance issues - including the separation of powers, election management and corruption - from the APRM reports of Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, Algeria and Benin.
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    Making the news: why the African Peer Review Mechanism didn’t

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has not generated a national conversation in South Africa. This paper investigates the reasons for this failure of the APRM.
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    A guide to rapid assessment and policy-making for the control of corruption in Latin American judicial systems

    The Due Process of Law Foundation, 2007
    This guide provides a tool for the rapid assessment of judicial corruption and the development of reform proposals, with special reference to Latin America.It begins by introducing concepts associated with corruption in general and proposes a definition that can be used for the study of judicial corruption in particular.
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    Local corruption diagnostics and measurement tools in Africa

    Transparency International, 2004
    This paper presents the results of a mapping exercise which assessed how national and local tools could provide a counterweight to international corruption surveys (risk assessments, perception indices and others, whose aim is often to rank countries against one another).
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    Analyzing conflict, democracy and violence in Colombia

    Georgetown University, 2005
    This study presents a methodology of conflict prevention and early warning for Latin America. Designed as an instrument to assess the impact of multiple forms of violent conflict and political crisis on democratic governance, the methodology also assesses the impact of democratic governance on violence, crime and social unrest.
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    The African Peer Review Mechanism: assessing origins, institutional relations and achievements

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    This paper analyses the impact of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). It examines the APRM’s relationship with the African Union (AU), the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) and other governance initiatives beyond the continent.
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    The African Peer Review Mechanism APRM: Africa’s innovative thinking on governance

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007
    African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) reflects a fundamental shift in Pan African thought in its attempt to formalise an early warning mechanism to avert political and economic crises in Africa. It advances the acceptance of the African Union and of the tentative and limited modification of the notion of sovereignty in Africa.

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