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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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  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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  Proportional representation and popular assessments of MP performance in South Africa: a desire for electoral reform?

  Afrobarometer, 2009

  Electoral reform has been attracting increasing interest in South Africa and a panel of experts has recommended that South Africa’s electoral system be reformed into a mixed system that would include a constituency-based electoral system as one of its components.
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  DR Congo: democracy and political participation - an assessment of the first steps into the 3rd Republic

  Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project, 2010

  In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the quest for greater citizen participation in public affairs is accompanied and influenced by debates about federal or unitary form of government, Congolese citizenship, the basic options of the Constitution, or the role of traditional authorities. This paper discuses the state of democracy and political participation in the DRC.
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  Effective support to political parties: A missing piece of the governance puzzle

  Overseas Development Institute, 2010

  Donors have at times been unrealistic about what is politically achievable, and have failed to recognise that imposing reforms without domestic support does not work. Political parties are often sidelined, reflecting concerns about political sensitivities.
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  Safeguarding the interests of the People: parliaments and aid effectiveness

  2009

  Aid effectiveness has, of late, become a subject of intense international debate resulting in a variety of international commitments for reform after the realisation that billions of dollars spent by donors have not yielded positive results in aid-receiving nations.
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  The pursuit of integrity in customs: experiences from sub-Saharan Africa

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009

  Fighting corruption in customs administration is a major challenge for many African governments, as well as for development agencies providing technical assistance. In this paper the author argues that integrity reforms have been too focused on reforming formal institutions, and too little attention has been paid to the political economy of reforms.
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  Rapid or incremental change? Assigning greater legislative powers to the Pan-African Parliament

  Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa, 2010

  Parliament Speakers at a 2009 conference convened by the African Union's (AU) Pan African Parliament (PAP) sought to acquire greater legislative powers and competencies in relevant policy areas.
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  Deliver the dream: time to close the gap between continental promises and the reality of African people

  Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2010

  This 2010 State of the Union Africa report assesses the continental performance of Member States against key governance, economic, social, civil and political policy standards and rights instruments over the period 2004-2009. It reviews ten country reports, utilising ten African Union (AU) legal instruments and four policy frameworks.
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  Public sentinel: news media and governance reform

  World Bank, 2010

  News media have contributed to the improvement of governance in several countries through their ability to expose corruption. This book contributes to the awareness of the potential contributions of independent news media to governance reform efforts around the world. It focuses on the performance of news media in addressing the major issues facing the international development community.

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