Looking for a
CMI publication?
1 - 20 of 1,282 publications:

Journal Article | forthcoming 2021
Citizens’ preferences for taxation of internationally mobile corporations: Evidence from Tanzania
The legitimacy of the tax system is likely to be compromised in the absence of public support. This article presents evidence from a discrete choice experiment designed to elicit the...
in Review of Development Economics

Journal Article | forthcoming 2021
Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania
Corruption is considered an important driver of the resource curse in developing countries. Based on a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania, this paper studies how the salience of future natural...
in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Journal Article | Jan 2021
Legal Mobilization to Protect Women against Rape in Islamist Sudan
A popular uprising recently ousted Omar al-Bashir and his Islamist cronies from power after having ruled Sudan with an iron fist since 1989. Sexual abuse and torture orchestrated by the...
in Cahiers d'études africaines

Sudan Brief | 2020
After the uprising: Including Sudanese youth
The youth were the backbone of the protests that led to the fall of Sudan’s president Omer al-Bashir in April 2019. Yet, two years after the uprising they are still...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Brief 2020:7) 4 p.

Report in External Series | 2020
Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for revenue generation in poor African countries
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic the need in poor countries in Africa for more revenues is obvious and growing - also because aid agencies are quite stingy in...
Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS Working Paper no. 13: 2020) 61 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2020
Sudan’s Transition: Living in Bad Surroundings
Following the 2019 April revolution, Sudan now finds itself in the middle of a profound and uncertain political transition. Should the transition succeed, the country could move in directions that...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:4) 17 p.

Journal Article | 2020
Too big to fault? Effects of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Norwegian exports to China and foreign policy
In October 2010, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Chinese government responded by freezing political and economic relations with Norway, introducing...
in International Political Science Review vol. 41 no. 2 pp. 207-223

CMI Working Paper | 2020
Comparing legal activism in Zimbabwe and Zambia
Battles over democracy are manifested in contestations over legal frameworks and within judicial institutions. Lawfare refers to the strategic use of law and legal institutions by actors in civil and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2020:5) 30 p.

Journal Article | 2020
Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Environmental and Resource Management
Corruption significantly affects the large majority of countries, and it has negative social and economic impacts. Its impacts on environmental and resource management (ERM) sectors are less well understood. We...
in Annual Review of Environment and Resources vol. 45

Report in External Series | 2020
ترتیبات آتش بس
مذاکرات آتش بس در کدام زمان و چگونه صورت میگیرد وعناصربنیادی آن کدام ها اند؟ این رهنمود عناصر بنیادی ۲۶۷ موافقتنامه های آتش بس مندرج بانک اطلاعاتی که بین سال...
Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh (PA-X Spotlight) 21 p.

Book Chapter | 2020
Corruption in customs: How can it be tackled?
This chapter examines recent experiences in combating corruption in customs administration in developing countries. There is no lack of measures, norms, standards or ‘best practices’ to address corruption. Although development...
in World Bank (2020): Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Transparency: The Fight Against Corruption. Washington D.C.

Report in External Series | 2020
Interim Governance Arrangements in Post-Conflict and Fragile Settings
This report provides an understanding of how temporary governance during major political transitions is structured and how it works in practice. Interim governance arrangements are the exercise of public power...
Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (Edinburgh Dialogues on Post-Conflict Constitution Building) 45 p.

Book | 2020
Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam, co-published by NIAS Press and the University of Hawai'i Press (Paperback February 2021)
This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as well as...
NIAS Press and the University of Hawai'i Press

Journal Article | 2020
Legal Reform or Erasure of History? The Politics of Moral Crimes in Afghanistan
in Central Asian Survey

U4 Issue | 2020
Corrupt networks in the Indonesian forestry sector. Politics and pulp in Pelalawan, Riau
In Indonesia, the persistence of illegal logging has long been attributed to corrupt networks involving powerful brokers, private sector entrepreneurs, and local political heads. But how do these networks function,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2020:12)

U4 Issue | 2020
Corrupt networks in the Indonesian forestry sector. Politics and pulp in Pelalawan, Riau
In Indonesia, the persistence of illegal logging has long been attributed to corrupt networks involving powerful brokers, private sector entrepreneurs, and local political heads. But how do these networks function,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2020:12)

CMI Brief | 2020
Excluding women: the clanization of Somali political institutions
Hawa Jibril, a poetess and a long-time activist for Somali women’s rights, identified male elders as a barrier to women’s inclusion in the politics and governance of their society. In...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2020:9) 4 p.

Sudan Brief | 2020
Patriarchy, Politics and Women’s Activism in Post-Revolution Sudan
While Sudanese women were at the forefront of the popular uprising under the banner "freedom, peace and justice" that started in December 2018 and eventually led to the ousting of...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Brief 2010:02) 4 p.

U4 Brief | 2020
Emergency release of people from prison because of Covid-19. A brief analysis through an anti-corruption lens
Many countries are implementing emergency releases of people from prison to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. Such measures, while critical to public health, can enable the unjust release from prison...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2020:11)

CMI Report | 2020
Literature Review: Democracy and Human Rights in contemporary Latin America (2015-2020) Trends, challenges, and prospects
Abstract
Through a review of scholarly and other well-informed articles as well as media reports, this CMI Report aims to summarize discussions on challenges for democracy and human rights in Latin...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2020:01)