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Democratic Republic of Congo Democracy and political participation: An assessment of the first steps into the 3rd Republic
03 December 2010 | Africa, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Political Parties, Report, Civil SocietyAs the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) prepares to go to the polls in 2011, for only the second time in more than forty years, this...
Elections and accountability in South Africa
22 November 2010 | Africa, Electoral Systems, Political Parties, Report, Civil SocietyAllowing citizens to decide whether or not to extend a government’s tenure through regular elections is the principal...
Positioning civil society post-Polokwane: coming to terms with ANC political leadership changes
22 November 2010 | Africa, Article / Working Paper, Political Parties, Civil SocietyIn 2007 South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC) was overhauled in what was seen as a revolt...
Are swing voters instruments of democracy or farmers of clientelism? Evidence from Ghana
22 November 2010 | Africa, Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Political Parties, Academic/Think TankThis paper states that is one of the first to systematically address the question of whether strength of ethnic identity, political parties...
The power of proximity: strategic decisions in African Party Politics
22 November 2010 | Africa, Article / Working Paper, Electoral Systems, Political Parties, Civil SocietyThere is increasing availability of survey data which has enabled researchers to rethink and challenge the notion...
Legal Framework and Citizen Participation in South Asia Regional Report
16 October 2010 | Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Democracy, Local Governance and Decentralization, Political Parties, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThis document is part of a global research initiative undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies, the Ford Foundation and some regional...
Inter-party relations and democracy in Botswana
19 November 2010 | Africa, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Political Parties, Report, Civil SocietyBotswana’s post-independence history has been characterised by rapid economic growth and social change. In the changing political...
Public Broadcast Services in Africa Series - South Africa
17 October 2010 | Africa, Civil Society, Media, Political Parties, Report, Civil SocietyAccording to the report, access to South Africa’s wide range of media is unevenly divided. Remote rural areas still do not have...
The successful Ghana election of 2008 – a convenient myth? Ethnicity in Ghana’s elections revisited
22 November 2010 | Africa, Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Civil SocietyGhana’s 2008 elections have been hailed by national and international observers as a model for Africa. This perception has...
Reviewing Africa’s Peer Review Mechanism
15 October 2010 | Africa, Civil Society, Democracy, Civil SocietyThe African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) was launched in 2003 as one of the pillars of NEPAD. More than half of Africa’s countries (with three-...