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  Struggles for citizenship in Africa

  Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project, 2010

   ‘We needed a war because we needed our identity cards.
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  Rwanda: joint governance assessment report

  Local government of Rwanda, 2008

  This report is an assessment of governance in Rwanda and is aimed at establishing a common understanding of governance progress, problems and priorities on the basis of agreed indicators and benchmarks. The report states that its objectives are threefold:
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  Research Programme on Democracy (Democracy as Idea and Practice)

  Research Programme on Democracy (Democracy as Idea and Practice) is based at the University of Oslo. (website under construction - more details to follow)
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  The tyranny of international index rankings

  Research Programme on Democracy (Democracy as Idea and Practice), 2009

  This paper considers International index rankings and determines that they are perhaps too persuasive. The authors stress that these rankings emphasise country differences where similarity is the dominant feature. The document adds that the rankings can be misleading, not because of wrong indicators, but because the estimation of the scores ignores inherent uncertainty.
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  Governance assessments and domestic accountability: feeding domestic debate and changing aid practices

  Fride, 2009

  This paper follows on from recently completed research that investigated the impact of donor harmonisation on domestic processes of democratisation. The aim of this research is to further inform donors on how they can operationally redirect their day to day work, if the rhetoric of both partnership and domestic accountability is to be taken seriously.
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  Governance considerations: donors’ use of the World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) tool

  International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2009

  This paper analyses the use of the World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) rankings by bilateral and multilateral donors in their aid allocation and other related decision-making processes. This specific interest is embedded in the more general question of which role governance criteria plays in donors’ aid allocation processes.
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  Measuring the rule of law

  Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, 2008

  This paper offers a critical review of seven indices of rule of law. Based on a coherent framework, the comparative evaluation addresses some of the most crucial aspects of measures, namely their focus and scope, conceptualization, measurement, and aggregation.
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  Monitoring democracy: deepening an emerging consensus

  School of International Relations, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, 2006

  The monitoring of democracy is both desirable and doable. Yet, as proposals to monitor democracy have gained prominence and as the political stakes of such exercises have become more evident, criticisms of attempts to monitor democracy have also been voiced. In this context, this paper considers efforts to monitor democracy and addresses four questions:
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  A methodology for democratic conflict prevention and early warning in Latin America

  Georgetown University, 2005

  This paper presents a seven-step methodology designed to analyse violent conflict, assess democratic governance and understand the relationships between the two. It has been developed principally as a tool of analysis to study the nature and quality of democracy in relation to current and future conflicts in a specific world region: Latin America.
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  Assessing Governance: diagnostic tools and applied methods for capacity building and action learning

  World Bank, 2002

  The relevant approach to be used for governance assessment varies depending on the key objective at hand, which may range from awareness-raising, defining priorities for action, or empirical research. In some cases, these empirical tools and the various objectives, rather than being mutually exclusive, are linked in complex ways, resulting in complementarities and synergies.

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