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Breaking BAD: Understanding the Backlash Against Democracy in Africa
Project | Aug 2017 - Dec 2021
Are dictators abusing formal institutions in a backlash against democracy, or are formal institutions increasingly restraining the discretionary ...
Africa, democracy, civil liberties, backlash, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Ghana, Uganda
Democracy decaying in Bangladesh
Newspaper Op-Ed | Mar 2018
Bangladesh has taken yet another turn on its downwards spiral from democracy to authoritarianism. On 8 February 2018, a Bangladeshi judge convicted ...
Bangladesh
Transition to what? African liberation- and pro-democracy movements' troubled democratic heritage
Project | Nov 2008 - Oct 2009
Dominant executives, weak democratic institutions and shrinking space for critical deliberation and contestation of political power characterise ...
sub-saharan africa, liberation movements, democratic transitions, media, elections, political parties, the judiciary, Zambia, Malawi, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Zimbabawe, Tanzania
Does democracy reduce corruption?
CMI Working Paper | Dec 2011
While democracy is commonly believed to reduce corruption, there are obvious endogeneity problems in measuring the impact of democracy ...
Democracy, corruption, conflict, endogeneity, Bangladesh
Does democracy reduce corruption?
Journal Article | Oct 2016
While democracy is commonly believed to reduce corruption, there are obvious endogeneity problems in measuring the impact of democracy on corruption. ...
Democracy, corruption, conflict, endogeneity, Bangladesh
Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan
CMI Brief | Sep 2017
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 ...
FGM, female genital mutilation, weak law, law, paper tiger, ARUSS, Sudan
Breaking BAD: Understanding Backlash Against Democracy in Africa
CMI Insight | May 2018
There is a trend of democratic retrenchment across the African continent. Despite democratic gains in some states, the overall tendency over ...
Backlash against democracy
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; ...
Democracy
Can national identity be built on local democracy?
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997
In Ethiopia, with 85% of the population in agriculture, most of them illiterate, democratisation has to work against adverse experience: Peasants ...
Africa: Ethiopia
Political Islam in South Asia
CMI Report | Jan 2002
This report analyses the growth of political Islam in South Asia (Pakistan, Afghanistan and India's Jammu and Kashmir Province). In Pakistan ...
Asia: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
Women on the Bench: The Role of Female Judges in Fragile States
Project | Jan 2017 - Dec 2020
In long-established western democracies, women have made inroads as judges only during the past few decades. In post-conflict and transitional ...
Democracy street
News | 27 Jun 2013
How can we make our democracy truly representative? Can participation be institutionalized? And who does the Maracanã stadium belong to?
Covering up a massacre in Angola?
News | 19 May 2015
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?
Angola
Faith-based food justice
News | 6 Jan 2012
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."
The ruins of Bangladesh’s LGBT community
Newspaper Op-Ed | Mar 2018
What was once a fledgling lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka is now destroyed. In 2014 ...
LGBT, Banglasesh
Political Islam in the Middle East
CMI Report | Jan 2003
This report provides an overview of the political Islam in the Middle East, with a special emphasis on the Islamic resurgence in the Levant ...
Islam, Democracy, Politics, Middle East, Middle East
The Gatekeepers: Political Participation of Women in Malawi
CMI Brief | Aug 2016
All over the world, there are gatekeepers with the power to facilitate – or restrict – peoples’ access. We have studied the ...
women, politics, political parties, Malawi
American constitutional democracies
News | 12 May 2005
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.
Breakfast Forum: The Malawi Slippage - From democracy to autocracy
Event | 14 Mar 2012
Frøy Gudbrandsen (UiB) in conversation with Malawi activist Rafiq Hajat and Arne Tostensen (CMI)
Malawi
Review of and recommendations for Norwegian support to good governance in Pakistan
Report in External Series | May 2011
The report introduces a theoretical framework for analysis, and then discusses how Pakistan and Norway define governance and good governance ...
good governance, Pakistan