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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 Chapter | 2020
Legislated Candidate Quotas with Reward for Compliance in Cabo Verde: Victory for No One?
in Ragnhild Louise Muriaas, Vibeke Wang, Rainbow Murray: Gendered Electoral Financing. Money, Power and Representation in Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge

Book Chapter | 2019
The legislative landscape of the petroleum sector in Tanzania
in Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Donald Mmari and Kendra Dupuy: Governing petroleum resources: Prospects and challenges for Tanzania. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute & REPOA pp. 26-34

CMI Working Paper | 2019
Managing the born-free generation: Zimbabwe’s strategies for dealing with the youth
A rich literature on Africa’s autocratic and repressive regimes has discussed the diverse strategies through which these regimes seek to consolidate and stay in power. Prominent strategies include election rigging,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2019:02)

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2019
Why fix KPK when it is not broken?
Indonesia’s most promising attempt at controlling corruption and an inspiration for its peers internationally is about to lose a lot of what enabled it to be so effective and trusted...
Jakarta Post 27 September

Journal Article | 2019
Overcoming the Limits of Legal Opportunity Structures: LGBT Rights’ Divergent Paths in Costa Rica and Colombia
Costa Rica and Colombia, two of the earliest Latin American countries to protect many LGBT rights, attempted to amplify those rights and litigate same-sex marriage (SSM) in mid-2000s; however, these...
in Latin American Politics and Society. vol. 61, Special Issue 2 pp. 138-163

Journal Article | 2019
Illicit financial flows within the extractive industries sector: a glance at how legal requirements can be manipulated and diverted
The extractive industries sector is considered to be one of the most prone to illicit financial flows. To date, numerous instruments at the national, regional and international level have been...
in Crime, Law and Social Change vol. 71 no. 1 pp. 107-128

Report in External Series | 2018
The Customer is King: Evidence on VAT Compliance in Tanzania
Like governments in many other African countries, the Government of Tanzania has been striving to improve the effectiveness of its value added tax (VAT) regime by reducing tax evasion through...
Brighton: International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) (ICTD Working Paper no. 83) 28 p.

Journal Article | 2018
Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa
Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional institutions enjoy constitutional authority. To explore differences between states...
in Political Studies, first published online: December 1, 2017 vol. 66 no. 4 pp. 851-868

Report in External Series | 2018
Russian Use of Private Military and Security Companies - the implications for European and Norwegian Security
How does the Russian use of private military and security companies affect Russian use of force and what are the implications for European and Norwegian security?
Over the past couple of...
Oslo (FFI-rapport no. 18/01300) 53 p.

Journal Article | 2018
Religious Counter-Mobilization against Child Marriage Reform in Sudan
Each year, 15 million girls are married before the age of 18. Sudan is among the African countries with a high prevalence of child marriage. In Sudan, 10.7% of women...
in Siha Journal: Women in Islam

U4 Issue | 2018
Exploring the role of digital civil society portals in improving Right to Information regimes
Over the past two decades, advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have transformed the way people access and interact with the information that governments produce and hold. The development...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2018:1)

Book | 2018
Manipulating political decentralisation: Africa's Inclusive Autocrats
Can autocrats establish representative subnational governments? And which strategies of manipulation are available if they would like to reduce the uncertainty caused by introducing political decentralisation? In the wake of...
New York: Routledge (Conceptualising Comparative Politics) 176 p.

Journal Article | 2018
Understanding the lie of the land: an institutional analysis of petro-governance in Tanzania
Tanzania has recently discovered large petroleum and natural gas reserves, boosting its natural resource stocks and potential future revenue flows. Whether the country’s petroleum resources will translate into economic development...
in Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law vol. 36 no. 1 pp. 85-101

Book Chapter | 2017
Forming the 2012 and 2013 constituent assemblies: A comparative process
A comparative analysis of the formation of Egypt's constituent assemblies from 2012 and 2013.
After President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011, discussions followed immediately regarding the revision of the...
in Cornelis Hulsman: The 2014 Egyptian Constitution: Perspectives from Egypt. Marburg: Tectum Verlag pp. 37-50

Journal Article | 2017
Political determinants of sustainable development goals
We read with interest the article by the GBD 2016 SDG Collaborators1 (Sept 16, p 1423), which presents a comprehensive analysis of the potential gaps and gains in the health-related Sustainable...
in The Lancet vol. 390 no. 10112 pp. 2545-2546

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Adultery, rape, and escaping the house: The protection and policing of female sexuality in Afghanistan
This working paper undertakes an initial survey of the dynamics through which the criminalization of female sexuality structures women’s access to protection against rape in Afghanistan, examining both legislation and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:9) 16 p.

CMI Report | 2017
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights
This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its independence in 1956. The signing...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2017:5) 28 p.

CMI Brief | 2017
What causes Latin America’s high incidence of adolescent pregnancy?
Latin America is the only region in the world where adolescent pregnancies are not decreasing. According to a recent article in the Lancet, if the current trend continues, Latin American...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 9) 4 p.

CMI Brief | 2017
Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa
Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional institutions enjoy constitutional authority. Why does counter-mobilization arise in...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 8) 4 p.