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Post-war reconciliation and democratization: Concepts, goals and lessons learnt

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000

Paper prepared for the seminar "After War: Reconciliation and Democratization in Divided Societies - Lessons learned", Solstrand 27-29 March 2000

Democratization in Africa, progress and retreat

Book Review | Dec 2011

Review of the book: Democratization in Africa, progress and retreat by Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, in African Studies Review vol. 54, no. ...

Underdevelopment and labour migration: the contract labour system in Namibia

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997

This volume reproduces, with minor changes, a set of previously published papers on the history of the origins, formation and evolution of the contract ...

Africa: Namibia

Democratization of a Dependent State: The Case of Afghanistan

CMI Working Paper | Nov 2007

The post-Taliban democratic reforms in Afghanistan were in part a recreation of the past. Afghanistan has had six constitutions between 1923 and 1990, ...

Afghanistan

In search of democratic justice - what courts should not do: Argentina, 1983-2002

Book Chapter | Jan 2004

In search of democratic justice - what courts should not do: Argentina, 1983-2002 Roberto Gargarell

Americas: Argentina

Democratizing Islam and Islamizing democracy: An inquiry into Hasan al-Turabi's conception of Shura in light of Western democratic theory

Journal Article | Aug 2009

This article explores Hasan al-Turabi’s conception of democracy with particular focus on the role and rights of non-Muslims. This is done through ...

Hasan al-Turabi, Islam, democracy, minorities, Sudan

Non-state actors and democratic consolidation

CMI Working Paper | Mar 2009

This working paper provides a review of the literature addressing the role of civil society or non-state actors in democratic consolidation, with particular ...

Civil society, Democratisation, Democratic consolidation, Malawi

Democratic Dynasties? Internal Party Democracy in Bangladesh

Journal Article | Jan 2016

First of all, this paper explores the rationale for internal party democracy, highlighting the ‘school for democracy’ argument. Second, it ...

Intra-party politics, democratization, dynasties, Bangladesh

Peacebuilding and Democratic Consolidation in Post-War Guatemala: A Comparative Assessment of the Impact of Civil-Military Reforms in the Peace Accords

Master's Thesis | Dec 2007

This thesis seeks to combine institutional peacebuilding theory and democratization theory in order to understand the process and the result of the implementation ...

Ett eller flere partier for Afrika?

Book Chapter | Jan 1995

This chapter (n Norwegian) argues that hardly any word is as misused as democracy. Very few would be prepared to declare themselves and anti-democrats; ...

Democracy, Africa

Egypt's constitutional cul-de-sac: Enabling military oversight and a security state in a nominally democratic order

CMI Insight | Apr 2014

Egyptians began 2014 being summoned back to the polls for the third time in three years on a constitutional matter. This time, as in the past two ...

Democratic dialogue and local tradition

Journal Article | Jan 1997

Democratic dialogue and local tradition Siegfried Pausewang International Conference of Ethiopian S

International Democracy Assistance: Key Lessons

CMI Brief | Dec 2007

What are the main challenges facing incipient democratic regimes in the developing world and how can donors best support democratisation in these countries? ...

democracy assistance, democratisation, democratic institutions

Ethiopia since the Derg: A decade of democratic pretension and performance

Edited Book | Jan 2002

The book offers a comprehensive coverage of the Federal Elections in 2000 in addition to extensive research into the trials of human rights abuses committed ...

Ethiopia

Truth in transition. The role of truth commissions in political transitions in Chile and El Salvador

CMI Report | Jan 1999

Truth Commissions are increasingly being used as one mechanism in a broader strategy to consolidate democratic governance following a period of authoritarian ...

Democratization, Authoritarianism, Chile, El Salvador, Americas: Chile

Opposition weakness in Africa

Journal Article | Aug 2009

Opposition parties and their position in the national legislature is a central component of any strategy of “democratization by elections”. ...

Tax reform and democratic accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

Book Chapter | Jan 2003

Can improved revenue collection and tax policies provide for more democratically accountable government? The chapter discusses the relationship between ...

Tax reform, Economic policy, Africa: Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia

Exploring the relationship between democratization and quota policies in Africa

Journal Article | Nov 2013

The authors in this special issue on Democratization and Gender Quotas in Africa are in various ways exploring the long-term effects of processes of gendering ...

Democratic Revolutions? Insights on Social Stability and Social Change From Psychology and Politics

Book Chapter | Jan 2018

There is growing psychological evidence that various processes differently contribute to our propensity to support or challenge the status quo; to embrace ...

Democracy

Aborted or nascent democracy? Structural reasons for the failure of democratisation in Ethiopia

Book Chapter | Jan 2004

The Ethiopian state has committed itself to secure that people feel that their human and democratic rights are taken care of in everyday life and at the ...

Democratization, Elections, Africa: Ethiopia