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Middle East and North Africa Report
Arab States, Conflict, Electoral Systems, Human Rights, Justice, Report, Academic/Think TankThe Syrian regime is losing ground to armed rebels, while the exiled opposition is in chaos Information coming from Syria points to the accelerating erosion of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. While the possible repercussions of the massacre perpetrated in Houla on May 25th remain unclear, the regime hasmore and more reason to be nervous. The “poison operation” conducted against top security figures on...
The APRM Process in South Africa
Africa, Civil Society, Electoral Systems, Human Rights, Public Administration, Report, Civil Society, DonorThis report reviews the process of implementing the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in South Africa. The aurthor of this report, Nobuntu Mbelle, finds that, though South Africa was anxious to complete the APRM self-assessment on time and did so successfully, its commitment to speed was perhaps at the expense of quality. Although there was an expectation that South Africa would...
Strengthening African Governance: index of african governance results and rankings
Africa, Conflict, Electoral Systems, Governance and Gender, Human Rights, Justice, Report, Academic/Think TankThe Index of African Governance is compiled and updated annually by a team of researchers at Harvard University and across Africa, under the leadership of Robert I. Rotberg and Rachel M. Gisselquist. The 2007 and 2008 editions of the Index were published as the Ibrahim Index of African Governance. In the first edition, published in 2007, Rotberg and Gisselquist set out the Index’...
Nations in Transit 2011
Corruption, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Justice, Media, Political Parties, Report, Civil SocietyNations in Transit is Freedom House’s comprehensive, comparative study of democratic development in 29 countries from Central Europe to Eurasia. The 2011 report - covering events of 2010 suggests that the authoritarian countries of the former Soviet Union have built governance systems that are resistant to reform and therefore increasingly vulnerable to unpredictable...
Burma's Electoral Framework Is Fundamentally Undemocratic
Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Conflict, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Human Rights, Report, Civil SocietyBurma’s military regime, known as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), intends to hold national elections sometime this year, the first since 1990. The polls will be the fifth step in the socalled “Seven Step Roadmap to Democracy” (the Roadmap) announced by the SPDC in 2003. The first four steps related to the development of a new constitution, adopted in 2008,...