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DataGov | Tracking and analyzing governance around the world
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Democracy, Economic Governance, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Public Administration, Web Resource, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe DataGov database provides country and regional scores from publicly available sources. The Database provides a user-friendly interface for accessing most of the publicly available indicators related to governance. The interactive tool permits users to easily produce cross-national comparative and time series graphs and tables for immediate printing or for export to standard office software....
Aspects, Variables, and Indicators Frameworks and Justifications - Indonesia
Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Guide / Manual / Indicators, UNDP Produced, GovernmentThis publications contains an overview, justification and explanation of indicators and variables used for the Indonesian democracy index.
Democratic Space in Asia-Pacific
Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Report, Academic/Think Tank, UNDP ProducedThis publication is part of the background material for the The Oslo Governance Forum (OGF). The OGF took place on 3-5 October 2011, and was organised by the UNDP’s Democratic Governance Group in collaboration with United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), ActionAid, ACT Alliance, World Bank Institute and PRIA Global Partnership. The Forum focused on participatory governance assessments and...
Human Development Report 2011
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Democracy, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Latin America and the Carribean, UNDP ProducedThe great development challenge of the 21st century is to safeguard the right of generations today and in the future to live healthy and fulfilling lives. The 2011 Human Development Report offers important new contributions to the global dialogue on this challenge, showing how sustainability is inextricably linked to equity—to questions of fairness and social justice and of greater access to a...
2011 Report on Cambodian Democracy, Elections and Reform
Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Report, Civil SocietyFollowing on the last year’s Report on Cambodian Democracy, Elections and Reform, COMFREL continues its reports, which assess the annual state of democracy in Cambodia. The annual report takes a comparative approach in asking, what changed in comparison to previous years? Did the political system of Cambodia progress toward a consolidated democracy or is stagnation or even a regression...
The Quality of democracy in Asia-Pacific: issues and findings
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Academic/Think TankContributors to this issue assess the quality of democracy in Asia-Pacific on the basis of both quantitative and qualitative data from an eight-country study. In doing so, they seek to make a contribution to the debate both empirically and conceptually. Empirically the project is the first effort, to the best of our knowledge, to apply an analytical framework developed by Morlino and his...
Blurring the Boundaries - Citizen Action Across States and Societies
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Academic/Think Tank, DonorBlurring the Boundaries - Citizen Action Across States and Societies provides a summary of nearly a decade of research on citizen engagement done by the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (the Citizenship DRC). The brief note Blurring the Boundaries - Citizen Action Across States and Societies has been produced by the Development Research Centre on...
2009 Report on Cambodia Democracy, Elections, and Reform
Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Report, Civil SocietyIn this document COMFREL reviews the current situation in Cambodia as related to democracy and elections, core freedoms, good governance, legal and judiciary reform, and describes a series of actions taken by the government and ruling party which have significantly undermined the proper functioning of democracy and its prerequisites. COMFREL calls on the Royal Cambodian Government (RGC) to...
Assessing democratic governance in Mongolia (ppt)
Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Governance and MDG, PresentationPresentation delivered to the 2007 workshop on Measuring and Assessing Democratic Governance in Bangkok.
Constitutional Reform and Democracy in Thailand - A National Survey of the Thai People 2009
Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Democracy, Report, Civil SocietyThis report presents the findings of The Asia Foundation’s first survey of the Thai electorate. The survey was conducted through face-to face interviews with a random, nationally representative sample of 1,500 voters in Bangkok and 26 provinces nationwide (excluding the three southern border provinces) between June 13 and July 5, 2009. This survey represents the latest...