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    Supporting country-led democratic governance assessments

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    Governance assessments have been an increasing priority for donors and national development partners alike, especially in the last five years. Country-led democratic governance assessments help to foster inclusive participation, strengthen accountable and responsive governing institutions, and ground governance in international principles of human rights, gender equity and integrity.
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    Guide to rule of law country analysis: The rule of law strategic framework

    US Agency for International Development, 2008
    Donors are increasingly recognizing that promoting democratic governance (DG) rooted in the rule of law contributes to long-term, sustainable economic and social development. This guide focuses specifically on the link between the rule of law and democratic governance, with particular attention to the empowerment of the poor.
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    Managing change and cultivating opportunity: the case for a capability index measuring countries' ability to manage change

    Overseas Development Institute, 2011
    Countries are constantly confronted with financial crises, natural disasters or long-term widespread processes that affect their fundamental structure over time. It is important to understand the capability of a country to manage these different types of change. This paper examines the various types of capability that may determine a country’s ability to manage change to its own advantage.
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    Contextualising conceptions of corruption: challenges for the international anti-corruption campaign

    German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2009
    In the recent past, international organisations, governments,non-governmental organisations and academics have been paying increasing attention to corruption. There was initially consensus that corruption has negative effects on development, macroeconomics, rule of law anddemocracy, and on social expenditure.
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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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