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Internal Government Assessments of the Quality of Governance in China
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Academic/Think TankAuthoritarian governments produce internal assessments of the quality of governance that allow them to identify and address brewing problems before they threaten regime stability. This paper provides a theory of how the information necessary to produce such assessments is gathered. The empirical focus of the paper is on China, which is used to illustrate how information-gathering channels in...
The AmericasBarometer l The Political Culture of Democracy in the Americas, 2012: Towards Equality of Opportunity
Civil Society, Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Academic/Think Tank, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis publication is the preliminary version of the AmericasBarometer regional, comparative report 2012. This round, fundamental social, political, and ethical problem in the Americas are tackled: the tremendous gaps in opportunities experienced and resources available to the region’s citizens. While these disparities are certainly visible in differences in economic development across...
LatinoBarómetro - Questionnaires, Codebooks & Methodology
Civil Society, Democracy, Framework, Latin America and the Carribean, Civil SocietyLatinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 19,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants. Latinobarómetro Corporation is a non-profit NGO based in Santiago, Chile, and is solely responsible for the production and publication of the data. Latinobarómetro Corporation researches the development of democracy and economies...
Formal and Informal Governance in Afghanistan: Reflections on a Survey of the Afghan People, Part 1 of 4
Report, Academic/Think TankFormal and Informal Governance in Afghanistan is one of a series of analytical papers on The Asia Foundation's recently released public-opinion survey, Afghanistan in 2011: A Survey of the Afghan People. The series of essays provide detailed analysis of the survey data on the opinions and perceptions of Afghans toward government, public policy, democracy, and political and social change as...
Mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion - Data Guide
Web Resource, Civil Society, GovernmentThis MacroDataGuide webpage presents a user's guide to data on mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion. It presents an overview of various institutions and research projects websites on mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion. Furthermore, it provides a qualitative assessment of these sources. The MacroDataGuide is a user’s guide to researchers and students worldwide in search...
AmericasBarometer 2012 Round Draws on lessons from 2010 Surveys
Civil Society, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Civil SocietyWith fieldwork halfway complete and data rolling in from 26 countries across the hemisphere, the 2012 round of the AmericasBarometer promises to be the best yet. This Insights report describes the AmericasBarometer’s fifth wave of surveys, which will be completed by the beginning of May. We focus especially on lessons learned from our 2010 round, in which we examined the impact of the economic...
Cultura Política de la Democracia en Bolivia, 2010
Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Civil SocietyEste estudio es la contribución más reciente de la serie de encuestas del Barómetro de las Américas, una de las varias actividades del Proyecto de Opinión Pública de América Latina (LAPOP), las cuales se han diversificado y ampliado en años recientes. El estudio de 2010 es el más extenso realizado hasta el...
Cultura política de la democracia en Ecuador, 2010: Consolidación democrática en las Américas en tiempos difíciles
Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Parliament, Political Parties, Report, Academic/Think TankEste estudio representa la contribución más reciente de la serie de encuestas del Barómetro de las Américas, una de las diversas actividades del Proyecto de Opinión Pública de América Latina (LAPOP), las cuales se han diversificado y ampliado en años recientes. El estudio de 2010 es el más extenso realizado hasta el momento,...
Transparency International Annual Report 2009
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Corruption, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Civil SocietyTI’s 2009 Annual Report provides compelling evidence of how the global anti-corruption movement is making concrete gains against corruption. Transparency International’s 2009 Global Corruption Barometer reveals a growing distrust of business, the daily struggle of the world’s poor with petty bribery and public unconvinced of governments’ anti-corruption efforts. A global public opinion survey,...
AfroBarometer: Round 4 (ppt)
Africa, Presentation, Civil SocietyPresentation delivered by Professor William Lindeke, Institute for Public Policy Research [IPPR], Namibia to the workshop on Country-led Governance Assessments in Namibia, 2009.