This report addresses the problem of foreign funding of political parties in newly democratised African states. The report identifies some problems associated ...

Democracy assistance programmes have gradually included support for political parties in addition to support for civil society, parliaments and the electoral ...

In search of the impact of international support for political parties in new democracies: Malawi a

This report is an integrated political economy analysis of Nepal. The main finding is that economic growth and poverty reduction have been steady in Nepal ...

(Commissioned by Norad)

Political parties are indispensable for the functioning of liberal democracies. However, the political parties of many transitional and developing countries ...

This study provides an overview of the evolution of political parties since the birth of Bangladesh. It analyses and compares the ideology, organisational ...

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

In this article we analyse the changes in the party system in Zambia in the period 1991 to 2001. Based on changes observed in terms of the number of parties, ...

Parliamentary elections were held in Angola on 5th September 2008, as the first elections in the country since 1992. There were 138 political parties ...

Globalization challenges existing knowledge about how parties and party systems emerge, operate and change. This is in part a consequence of the globalization ...

The issue of presidential term limits is emerging as an important political norm on the African continent, but the effects of the third term debates on ...

The two major political parties in Bangladesh are dynastic, like other well-known parties in South Asia. Political dynasty means a prominent political ...

Norwegian Centre for Democracy Support: Evaluation of Political Parties' Cooperation Projects: Norw

The weakness of opposition parties in Africa, as well as the endurance of dominant party and presidentialist regimes, has been explained in a variety ...

The issue of presidential term limits is emerging as an important political norm on the African continent, but the effects of the third term debates on ...

In 1992, legislation formally ended the nearly 30 year domination of the one-party state in Tanzania, part of a democratisation wave that appeared to ...

In this study of the political parties of Bangladesh we will assess the quality of the political parties and party coalitions along a number of indicators. First, ...

The good (but not so new) news from Malawian politics is that some of the democratic basics are in place, making the somewhat impaired democracy keep stumbling on, writes CMIs Inge Amundsen and Gift Sambo from the field.

In this contribution the challenges of political opposition is addressed through a focus on the problems of institutionalizing parties and party systems ...