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    Lessons to be learned: political party research and political party assistance

    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 political science research on political parties.
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    Bolivia’s new constitution: towards participatory democracy and political pluralism?

    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 and incorporates enhanced mechanisms and institutions for participatory democracy.
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    Measuring and comparing party ideology in non-industrialised societies: taking party manifesto research to Africa

    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. .
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    How presidents legislate: agenda control and policy success in Costa Rica

    The Kellogg Institute, 2010
    Presidents around the world have access to a wide range of legislative powers—veto power, decree power, and exclusive bill introduction powers. However, an important but often overlooked power is the ability to control the legislative agenda during extraordinary sessions where the president decides which bills the legislature will consider.
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    Assessing the tax performance of developing countries

    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 in this paper seeks to give a comparative overview of the tax performance of developing countries, based on aggregate data and country-specific information.
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    Taxation, resource mobilisation and state performance

    Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2010
    The process of tax collection is one of the most powerful lenses in political economy to assess the distribution of power in a polity. Indeed, there is a long history of thinking in political economy and history that links the process of state-building with the capacity of rulers to collect taxes.
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    Does performance matter to institutional survival? The method and politics of performance measurement for anti-corruption agencies

    European University Institute, Italy, 2009
    Following a period when anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) were portrayed as the panacea to corruption, they are now facing pressure from governments, donors and international organizations to show results. Debate on their performance tends to ignore the causal structure of their agency. ACAs have to contend with the political powers that create them and then attack them.
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    The uses of the Afrobarometer in promoting democratic governance

    Afrobarometer, 2010
    Over the past twenty years, approaches to development in Africa have undergone a fundamental change.
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    Local government in Kenya: negative citizen perception and minimal engagement in local government affairs

    Afrobarometer, 2010
    Local governance has been glorified as a panacea for development because it is embedded in the decentralization debates, policies and programs across the African continent. However, many citizens are dissatisfied with the performance of local governments, and to a large extent are disengaged from local processes put in place to address local development.
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    Spot the difference: a comparison of presidents and governments' performance since 1999 in Malawi

    Afrobarometer, 2009
    The performance of all governments is constantly being reviewed, reported on and rated on various fronts, including sectoral growth, overall gross domestic product (GDP) growth, inflation, exchange and interest rate movements, provision of health and education services, social security, and improved water supply, among others.

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