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Assessing women’s political party programmes: best practices and recommendations
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Governance and Gender, Guide / Manual / Indicators, Political Parties, Civil SocietyThis handbook presents the specific elements and approaches that are most effective in encouraging women’s participation and leadership in political parties. The handbook draws mainly on NDI’s programmes to integrate and advance women within political parties and promote women’s political participation. However, the information gathered in this assessment...
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...
Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance in the Public Sector in Switzerland
Article / Working Paper, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Political Parties, Public Administration, Other UN AgencyThe paper begins with a description of the ethnic structures and cleavages in Switzerland and their development. It then provides an overview of the Swiss political system and its institutional elements of political integration. Finally, the scope and limits of these arrangements are discussed through an analysis of their effects on minority representation and equality. Switzerland is one of...
The growth of public health expenditures in OECD countries: do government ideology and electoral motives matter?
Article / Working Paper, Europe and CIS, Political Parties, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis paper empirically evaluates whether government ideology and electoral motives influenced the growth of public health expenditures in 18 OECD countries over the 1971-2004 period. The results suggest that incumbents behaved opportunistically and increased the growth of public health expenditures in election...
Poverty, Governance and Participation: The Example of Tajikistan
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Political Parties, Academic/Think TankBased on a concise poverty analysis of Tajikistan, Frank Bliss discusses the linkages between governance, stakeholder participation and decision-making processes on poverty alleviation. The paper claims that vested interests of politico-economic elites are still a major obstacle for transparency, but it also points to the lack of capacities in an under-developed civil society. It thus...