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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...
Turkish Local e-Governments: A Longitudinal Study
Arab States, Article / Working Paper, E-Governance, Europe and CIS, Academic/Think TankThis article is based on a longitudinal exploratory study of the Turkish local e-governments between September 2005 and December 2006. 3,228 Turkish local governments constitute the sampling framework of this paper. The first part of the study, which took place in 2005, indicated that only 969 authorities were online. But the second part, issued at the end of 2006, showed that...
Judicial Ingroup Bias in the Shadow of Terrorism
Arab States, Article / Working Paper, Justice, Academic/Think TankThis study examines ingroup bias - the preferential treatment of members of one's group in naturally occurring data, where economically signi cant allocation decisions are made under a strong non-discriminatory norm. Data come from Israeli small claims courts during 2000-04, where the assignment of a case to an Arab or Jewish judge is essentially random. The finding reveal robust evidence for...