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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.

Report in External Series | 2020
Evaluation of Norway’s Engagement in Somalia 2012–2018
The purpose of this evaluation commissioned by Norad's evaluation department is to draw lessons from Norway's involvement over time in a country affected by conflict. Somalia is one of the...
Oslo: Norad (Evaluation Department Reports no. 7/2020) 122 + 78 p.

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)

CMI Brief | 2020
Candidate selection and informal soft quotas for women: Insights from Zambia
What does it take for a female politician to win a party nomination? We still know little about women’s entry into politics in countries without formal gender quotas. Using data...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2020:1) 4 p.

Book Chapter | 2019
Stuck in Transition: Political Corruption as Power Abuse
The final chapter summarises some of the findings of the previous country analyses, against the background of the conceptual pair of extractive and power-preserving political corruption. It is argued that...
in Inge Amundsen (ed.): Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd.

Book Chapter | 2019
Extractive and Power-Preserving Political Corruption
This introductory chapter outlines the distinctions between, on the one hand, political and bureaucratic corruption, and, on the other hand, between extractive and power-preserving corruption. It is argued that the...
in Inge Amundsen (ed.): Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd.

CMI Brief | 2019
Beyond Islamist Extremism: Women and the Algerian Uprisings of 2019
February 22, 2019, marked a watershed moment in Algeria’s history, and a key moment in the struggle for women’s rights. For the first time since its independence 57 years ago,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2019:09) 6 p.

Journal Article | 2019
The Taliban and the humanitarian soldier: Configurations of freedom and humanity in Afghanistan
Humanitarian wars are a primary means of globally affirming a specific model of humanity, built according to the cultural, moral, and economic standards of Western democracies. How are forms of...
in Anuac vol. 8 no. 1 pp. 31-57

Journal Article | 2019
Elite behaviour and citizen mobilization
This paper studies the relation between self-serving elite behaviour and citizen political participation. We use a fixed effects approach to analyze the association between portfolio investment in tax havens and...
in European Journal of Political Research vol. 58 no. 2 pp. 769-794

Journal Article | 2019
Humanitarian Militarism and the Production of Humanity
The limits and consequences of humanitarian military operations continue to be major issues in Western public debates on global security, democracy and human rights. This article focuses on the intersection...
in Social Anthropology vol. 27 no. 1 pp. 84-99

Journal Article | 2018
Diversification and democracy
Does diversification of an economy improve the chances of democracy? In theory, diversification may reduce elite cohesion and improve citizen outside options, making democracy more likely. This paper estimates the...
in International Political Science Review vol. 39 no. 4 pp. 551-569

Journal Article | 2018
A Good Ally - Norway and International Statebuilding in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
The article examines the findings of the Commission of Inquiry established by the Norwegian government in 2014 to evaluate all aspects of Norway's civilian and military contribution to the international operation in...
in Journal of Strategic Studies

Book | 2018
Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development
It has long been debated whether Africa's lack of growth is best explained by the continent's exploitation by the global system, or by internal failures of domestic political leadership, and...
London/New York: Zed Books (African Arguments Book Series,) 216 p.

CMI Insight | 2018
Breaking BAD: Understanding Backlash Against Democracy in Africa
There is a trend of democratic retrenchment across the African continent. Despite democratic gains in some states, the overall tendency over the past decade has been the erosion of democratic...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2018:3)

Book Chapter | 2018
Transitional Justice for Human Rights: The Legacy and Future of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Truth commissions are an integral component of transitional justice, that is, formal and informal mechanisms set up by the state or civil society to address human rights violations committed in...
in Gerd Oberleitner: International Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals, and Courts. International Human Rights. Singapore: Springer pp. 1-21

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
The ruins of Bangladesh’s LGBT community
What was once a fledgling lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka is now destroyed. In 2014 and 2015 the Bangladeshi gay scene was...
East Asia Forum, Australia 23.03.2018

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
Democracy decaying in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has taken yet another turn on its downwards spiral from democracy to authoritarianism. On 8 February 2018, a Bangladeshi judge convicted opposition leader Khaleda Zia — the nation’s former...
East Asia Forum, 6 March 2018

Journal Article | 2018
Do donors reduce bilateral aid to countries with restrictive NGO laws?: A panel study, 1993-2012
Foreign aid contributes to about 10% of gross domestic product of developing countries. To distribute aid in recipient countries, Western donors increasingly rely on non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Yet, since the...
in Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly vol. 47 no. 1 pp. 89-106

Journal Article | 2018
Critiques of Human Rights
Empirical critiques of human rights have reached a crescendo. Despite their centrality in late modernity, human rights face claims of irrelevance and predictions of demise. These social science–inflected assessments follow...
in Annual Review of Law and Social Science vol. Vol. 14 pp. 69-89

Book Chapter | 2018
Democratic Revolutions? Insights on Social Stability and Social Change From Psychology and Politics
There is growing psychological evidence that various processes differently contribute to our propensity to support or challenge the status quo; to embrace change or to reject it. What is more,...
in Brady Wagoner, Ignacio Bresco de Luna, Vlad Glaveanu: The Road to Actualized Democracy: A Psychological Exploration. Charlotte: Information Age Publishing