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Angola party politics: Into the African trend

Angola Brief | Jun 2011

Angolan politics is usually explained with reference to the country’s long and devastating civil war. The postponed elections, the domination of ...

Angola

The return of party politics in Nepal

Journal Article | Jan 1994

The return of party politics in Nepal Lok Raj Baral Journal of Democracy lok raj baral lok raj ba

From dominant to competitive party system: The Zambian experiences 1991-2001

Journal Article | Jan 2004

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, ...

Political parties, Politics, Africa: Zambia

Explaining municipal governance in Kosovo: local agency, credibility and party patronage

Journal Article | May 2018

What can explain the varied effectiveness of internationally led attempts at statebuilding? This article seeks to answer this question by comparing the ...

Ethnic federalism in a dominant party state: The Ethiopian experience 1991-2000

CMI Report | Jan 2002

Since 1991, when the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front came to power, two parallel political processes have taken place in Ethiopia. Firstly, ...

Africa: Ethiopia

The Political Parties in Bangladesh: Political Dynasties and Democratisation

Project | Sep 2010 - Dec 2013

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, ...

Political parties, good governance, politics, clientelism, political finance, Bangladesh

Political Corruption

U4 Issue | Jan 2006

Political corruption undermines political and economic development in many countries, and raises difficult challenges for foreign aid. What is political ...

Corruption, political corruption, World

Political Finance: State Control and Civil Society Monitoring

U4 Brief | Apr 2008

Modern politics face the challenge of reconciling the presence of money in politics with the risks it poses to democratic values and good governance. ...

Elections, political corruption, political finance

CMI: Political Corruption book project

Project | Jan - Dec 2018

Political Corruption in AfricaExtraction and Power Preservation This book is analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic ...

Corruption, political corruption, development, Africa, Africa

AMAN-CMI: Political corruption in Palestine

Project | Nov 2018 - Dec 2019

This project is a collaboration between AMAN, the Coalition for Accountability & Integrity (TI Palestine) and CMI. In order to strengthen the rule ...

Corruption, political corruption, Palestine

Donor Support to Political Parties: Status and Principles

CMI Report | Jul 2007

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

Corruption, Political corruption, Politics, Public finance

Extractive and Power-Preserving Political Corruption

Book Chapter | Nov 2019

This introductory chapter outlines the distinctions between, on the one hand, political and bureaucratic corruption, and, on the other hand, between extractive ...

political corruption, corruption, power preservation, political economy analysis, bribery, favouritism, vote buying

International Assistance for Political Party Development

U4 Issue | Apr 2008

Political party assistance should be a key component of international donors' governance agenda. Efforts to reduce corruption that do not address this ...

political corruption, political parties

Money in politics: Transparency in action

U4 Brief | Sep 2007

Fostering disclosure of political finance information regarding public as well as private funds is key to address money's undue influence over democratic ...

corruption, political corruption

Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation

Edited Book | Nov 2019

Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social ...

Political corruption, Corruption, Power preservation, Political economy analysis, Bribery, Favouritism, Vote buying, Civil society, Media, Anti-corruption, 'Big Man', Patronage, Elections, Resource curse, Clientelism, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, Malawi

"A second Liberation": Lobbying for Women's Political Representation in Zambia, Botswana and Namibia

Journal Article | Jan 2006

The article looks at the efforts of women's movements in southern Africa to claim a stake in formal politics as an avenue to pursue their specific demands. ...

Women's movements, Political parties, Politics, Africa: Botswana, Namibia, Zambia

Political corruption and the role of donors (in Uganda)

Commissioned Report | Jan 2006

Political leadership and commitment to fight corruption at the highest levels is one of the most important preconditions for success in the fight against ...

Uganda

Women in Politics in Malawi: An Introduction

Book Chapter | Jan 2016

Introduction chapter to the book: Women in Politics in Malawi

Politics, democratisation, gender, Malawi

Lectures in Political Economy, University of Bergen

Project | Jan - Jun 2008

Political economy. Bachelor level.

Political economy lectures economics

Unpacking the concept of political will to confront corruption

U4 Brief | May 2010

Quite often, "lack of political will" is identified as the culprit for poorly performing anti-corruption programmes. Yet despite the frequency with which ...

uncac, political corruption