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  Parochial politics: ethnic preferences and politician corruption

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2007

  This paper examines how increased voter ethnicisation, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. The paper argues that if politics is characterised by incomplete policy commitment, then ethnicisation, not suprisingly, reduces average winner quality for the pro-majority party with the opposite true for the minority party.
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  Pakistan: the forgotten conflict in Balochistan

  International Crisis Group, 2007

  Violence continues unabated in Pakistan’s strategically important and resource-rich province of Balochistan, where the military government is fighting Baloch militants demanding political and economic autonomy. This report maps out the dynamics behind the conflict and provides recommendations for an election process which would contribute to stability in the region.
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  Power to the people: evidence from a randomised field experiment of a community based monitoring project in Uganda.

  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 2007

  This paper presents a randomised field experiment on increasing community-based monitoring. It particularly focuses on looking at whether access to, and quality of health care can be improved by strengthening the relationship of accountability between health service providers and citizens. Key points include:
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  The enabling environment for social accountability in Mongolia

  World Bank Publications, 2007

  Governmental accountability has become an increasing focus of attention by international donors in their development policies, strategies, and programmes. This study focuses on social accountability in Mongolia and the conditions influencing its success and failure, including legislation, the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) and the media.
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  Money and politics program: guide to applying lessons learned

  International Foundation for Electoral Systems, 2006

  The disclosure of political accounts is a necessary condition for holding political actors accountable and reducing political corruption. This guide operationalises the concept that disclosure effectively promotes accountability within the larger social, political, and historical context of emerging democracies. 
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  Understanding state-building and local government in Afghanistan

  Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2007

  State-building has emerged has a key agenda of development aid, particularly in post-conflict contexts. This paper explores the important role of local government reform in the state-building process. It attempts to look at initiatives in the re-establishing of local government linked to the central government in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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  Modeling ineffecient institutions

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006

  Many economists and social scientists have recently emphasised the importance of government institutions for economic growth. This paper develops a model to show why inefficient institutions are built and allowed to persist.
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  Political finance in post-conflict societies

  International Foundation for Electoral Systems, 2006

  In post-conflict situations political finance system must ensure limitations on, support for and accountability of funding for political parties, candidates and other electoral participants.
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  Anti-corruption efforts in Latin America: lessons learned

  Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2007

  This document discusses proceedings at the conference on corruption in Latin America focusing on the 1980s and 1990s.
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  Malawi: justice sector and the rule of law

  Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2006

  The 1994 democratic Constitution that represented Malawi’s decisive break with Banda’s dictatorial regime ushered in a new set of human rights and democratic standards, aspirations and values. This included a commitment to ensure that Malawi complied with African and international norms and standards on human rights, the rule of law and democratic governance.

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