Are dictators abusing formal institutions in a backlash against democracy, or are formal institutions increasingly restraining the discretionary ...

Bangladesh has taken yet another turn on its downwards spiral from democracy to authoritarianism. On 8 February 2018, a Bangladeshi judge convicted ...

Dominant executives, weak democratic institutions and shrinking space for critical deliberation and contestation of political power characterise ...

While democracy is commonly believed to reduce corruption, there are obvious endogeneity problems in measuring the impact of democracy ...

While democracy is commonly believed to reduce corruption, there are obvious endogeneity problems in measuring the impact of democracy on corruption. ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a common practice in Sudan. Nine out of ten women have been subjected to this practice. In 2009, a ...

There is a trend of democratic retrenchment across the African continent. Despite democratic gains in some states, the overall tendency over ...

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

In Ethiopia, with 85% of the population in agriculture, most of them illiterate, democratisation has to work against adverse experience: Peasants ...

This report analyses the growth of political Islam in South Asia (Pakistan, Afghanistan and India's Jammu and Kashmir Province). In Pakistan ...

In long-established western democracies, women have made inroads as judges only during the past few decades. In post-conflict and transitional ...

How can we make our democracy truly representative? Can participation be institutionalized? And who does the Maracanã stadium belong to?

In mid-April 2015, news emerged about the killing of nine police-men in Angola's Huambo province. The incident involved the police and members of Juliano Kalupeteca's "Light of the World" religious sect. In the following days, grizzling reports emerged of a massacre of perhaps hundreds of sect members. We do not yet know the truth. Angola's government appears to do its utmost to prevent knowledge of it to transpire. Will the international community remain passive?

Our faith drives us. We do our work with respect and humility. Our aim is to facilitate the distribution of food for every Egyptian who needs it, without discrimination between women or men, Muslim or Christian."

What was once a fledgling lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka is now destroyed. In 2014 ...

This report provides an overview of the political Islam in the Middle East, with a special emphasis on the Islamic resurgence in the Levant ...

All over the world, there are gatekeepers with the power to facilitate – or restrict – peoples’ access. We have studied the ...

In his new book, senior researcher Roberto Gargarella argues that many of the problems currently attributed to modern constitutional democracies, are not unfortunate "distortions" of a properly organized institutional design, but rather foreseeable effects of that framework.

Frøy Gudbrandsen (UiB) in conversation with Malawi activist Rafiq Hajat and Arne Tostensen (CMI)

The report introduces a theoretical framework for analysis, and then discusses how Pakistan and Norway define governance and good governance ...