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    Climate policy integration: towards operationalization

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2009
    The climate change debate raises the issue of the often identified requirement to incorporate climate policy into other policy sectors, often termed climate “mainstreaming” or climate policy integration (CPI). This paper explores the need for CPI, the state of current understanding, and proposals for integration of climate policy at the national policy scale.
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    Arab Human Development Report 2009: challenges to human security in Arab countries

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2009
    This report examines human development in the Arab world through a human security lens, calling on policymakers and other stakeholders to move away from a state-centric conception of security to one which also concentrates on the security of individuals, their protection and their empowerment.
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    Effectiveness of bylaws in the management of natural resources

    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2008
    This paper discusses the historical changes in power delegation from central origins to secondary institutions. The analysis covers the rise of bylaws across the Western African countries and links the multiplicity of bylaws to the spread of the decentralisation movement. West Africa is an environmentally diverse region that is poor, growing rapidly, and losing valuable natural resources.
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    Indicators for a state of the judiciary report: a standardized tool for monitoring and reporting on the implementation of key judicial reforms

    International Foundation for Electoral Systems, 2003
    This document presents the International Foundation for Election Systems Judicial Integrity Principles (JIS) - a standardized tool for monitoring and reporting on the implementation of key judicial reforms.
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    Conceptualizing and measuring institutions: a view from political science

    European School on New Institutional Economics, 2008
    While political scientists have traditionally deployed objective indicators of “political organization and administrative capacity”, including tax ratios, tax structures, political participation and the nature and extent of public service provision, they are beginning to import subjective indicators of “governance” from economics.
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    Legal and judicial reform performance monitoring: the PNG approach

    Centre for Judicial Studies, 2008
    Judicial and legal reform is now recognised as foundational in all governance and economic development strategies. This paper identifies the dramatic growth in legal and judicial reform across the world of international development assistance, and assesses the experience of measuring performance in a substantial reform programme in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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    Far from justice: Syria's supreme state security court

    Human Rights Watch, 2009
    This report examines the activities of the Supreme State Security Court (SSSC) in Syria set up during the state of emergency in 1963.
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    Regulating biotechnology in China: the politics of biosafety

    2003
    This working paper looks at the politics of biosafety regulation and risk assessment in China’s growing biotech industry with respect to genetically modified (GM) crops.The central question examined in this study asks who has the authority and legitimacy to make decisions about risks of a new technology such as GM crops.To this purpose, the author explores:
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    Devising measures to evaluate judicial reform projects:

    Centre for Judicial Studies, 2009
    The doctrine of judicial independence militates against formal external assessment of the performance of judges. Other constraints include a lack of established consensus on indicators of judicial best practice of what makes “a good judge.” Moreover, assessments of public satisfaction with judicial services are unavoidably qualitative and anecdotal.
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    The contribution of ICT to freedom and democracy: an empirical analysis of archival data on the Middle East

    Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2008
    This paper examines the extent to which ICT expansion is impacting social and political freedoms in ten countries of the Middle Eastern region, defined as non-democratic states. It investigates two prominent and interrelated issues in these countries:

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