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    The state of governance in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Informal, neo-patrimonial power structures partly explain why over 30 years of structural adjustment and calls for good governance have failed to inspire lasting change in Africa. What can be done?
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    Model Curricula for Journalism in the Arab World

    UNESCO Communication and Information Sector (Webworld), 2008
    Following the publication by UNESCO of a Model Curricula for journalism education, this wiki platform is a tool to adapt the programme to teaching journalism in Arabic and French.
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    Implacable adversaries: Arab governments and the internet

    The Initiative for an Open Arab Internet, 2007
    Arab governments have maintained a tradition of restricting freedom of expression using national security and religious morals as grounds for censorship, and the ‘war on terror’ has given them an excuse to further extend this. When it comes to the internet, restriction and censorship has taken the form of blocking websites and arresting bloggers.
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    Recommendations of the CPD conference on Development with Equity and Justice: immediate asks for the newly elected government

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2009
    Bangladesh recently held general elections and a new government is now in place. Amidst the country’s many priorities, though, which issues are most important for poverty reduction?
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    Governance and state delivery in Southern Africa

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
    This document is composed of three papers: the contributions on Namibia and Botswana look at the extent to which these countries are able to set standards in terms of well functioning democracies; the paper on Zimbabwe argues that the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) should be enforced as a way out of the current impasse.
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    Political opposition in African countries: the cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
    This document is a compilation of three research papers originally presented to the Research Committee on Comparative Sociology at the XVI World Congress of Sociology held in 2006. The first chapter examines perceptions and attitudes regarding the influence of ethnicity on politics in Kenya and Zambia. The paper finds that:
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    The APRM A case study in democratic institution building?

    Institute for Security Studies, 2007
    The New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) arose out of the need to attend to the sluggish democratic transitions in Africa as well as the stagnation of African development in general.
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    Measuring progress toward safety and justice: A global guide to the design of performance indicators across the justice sector

    Vera Institute of Justice, 2003
    This guide describes the process of choosing appropriate indicators for measuring progress towards safety and justice. It is written for managers responsible for improving the delivery of safety, security, and access to justice in any part of the world.
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    Votes and violence: evidence from a field experiment in Nigeria

    Households in Conflict Network, 2008
    Although many African states made the transition from autocracy to democracy, the shift has not been an easy one. Recent elections in Zimababwe, Kenya and Nigeria have exposed vote-buying, ballot fraud and highly-publicised election violence.
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    Tunisia: the courage to inform the public

    Reporters Without Borders [Reporters Sans Frontières], 2009
    This paper discusses press freedom in Tunisia, presenting the findings of a visit by a delegation from Reporters Without Borders at the end of 2008. It argues that two different types of media co-exist in Tunisia. The more compliant of the two benefits from huge state subsidies and significant advertising revenue, while the other media has to survive in difficult financial conditions.

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