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The Work of Domestic Election Observer Groups Around the World
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Book, Civil Society, Electoral Systems, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyAuthors/Editors: Paul O’Grady, Rafael Lopez-Pintor, & Mark Stevens Civil society is a vitally important outlet for democratic activity and civil society groups are central partners in the promotion and defence of democratic development – from Latin America to Asia and from Europe to Africa. The aim of this publication is to highlight the work done by domestic election observers around the...
Nations in Transit 2008
Book, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Civil SocietyNations in Transit, published annually by Freedom House, is a comprehensive, comparative, multidimensional study focusing on 29 countries and administrative areas from Central Europe to Eurasia. There are three major findings in the 2008 Nations in Transition. First, there appears to be a distinct and expanding divergence in democratic performances of nations in the former Soviet...
Accountability Arrangements to Combat Corruption: a Note on Research Methodology for Combating Corruption
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Book, Corruption, Europe and CIS, Academic/Think TankThis document provides information about the research agenda and methods used to investigate corruption in the infrastructure sector. It presents a combination of qualitative and quantitative research techniques to analyse corruption in the infrastructure sector. This methodology was selected to allow contextual analysis of real life situations based on multiple sources of evidence...
From the Ground Up: Improving Government Performance with Independent Monitoring Organizations
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Book, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThis book is based on a simple concept: no one is in a better position to hold a government accountable than those it governs. When governments fail to meet the needs of their citizens, the international community often turns to large external organizations such as the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. These analysts and monitors may have the resources and expertise to analyze and...