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    Requirements management – defining the project scope and developing use cases

    Global Centre for Information and Communication Technologies in Parliament, 2008
    This handbook provides a structured approach for the introduction and integration of ICT in Parliament. It maintains the linkages between the rationale for ICT (vision and strategy) and the subsequent stages of business case development, project scope definition, requirements development and the system delivery, roll out and evaluation.
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    World e-parliament report 2008

    Global Centre for Information and Communication Technologies in Parliament, 2008
    The World e-Parliament Report 2008 presents a global assessment of the use of ICT by parliaments, based mainly on survey evidence. The report’s main objective is to help legislatures evaluate the potential benefits of technology for their work and establish key goals and priorities for exploiting this critical resource. Other objectives include:
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    Public media 2.0: dynamic, engaged publics

    The Center for Social Media, 2009
    Public broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, and network newscasts have all played a central role in  democracy, informing citizens and guiding public conversation. But the top-down dissemination technologies that supported them are being supplanted by an open, many-to-many networked media environment.
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    Reflections on the state institution-building support in Timor-Leste capacity development, integrating mission, and financial challenges

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2004
    With the independence of Timor-Leste in May 2002, a large-scale state institution- building assistance was launched, by placing several hundreds of international advisors into key units and departments of the state institutions.
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    Supporting public service broadcasting: learning from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s experience

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2004
    The aim of this paper is to contribute to UNDP practitioners’ understanding of broadcast media sector reform, especially reform concerning Public Service Broadcasting (PSB)
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    Money in politics: transparency in action

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007
    Fostering disclosure of political finance information regarding public as well as private funds is key to address money’s undue influence over democratic processes. However, aid donors are still reluctant to engage in what they see as a country’s ‘internal politics’.
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    Stronger legislatures stronger democracies

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2006
    This essay proposes a new way of thinking about how political institutions influence democratisation, one that examines the capacity or power of specific offices. In particular, it focuses upon the strength of the legislature and its consequences for the advance of democracy.
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    International assistance for political party development

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    Political parties in aid receiving new or struggling democracies are often enmeshed in corruption, either in their attempts to get into power or in their exercise of power. Western aid donors providing assistance to anti-corruption efforts avoid engaging with political parties, due to their unfamiliarity with these organisations and concerns about being too political.
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    Decentralization, local government elections and voter turnout in Pakistan

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    The paper argues that as the scope of decentralisation in the developing world increases, and political and economic authority is devolved to local governments, there is a need to better understand the phenomenon of political participation in local government.  Accountability of local institutions requires broad groups of people to participate in local government, and voter turnout at local g
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    Party for justice and development in Morocco: participation and its discontents

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2008
    This paper analyses the institutional and political conditions that shaped Morocco’s leading Islamist party—the Party for Justice and Development (PJD)— its policy priorities, and its impact on the country’s political environment.

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