Blar i Chr. Michelsens Institutt på forfatter "Rakner, Lise"
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Rational Choice and the Problem of Institutions. A discussion of Rational Choice Institutionalism and its Application by Robert Bates
Rakner, Lise (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)The paper discusses and reviews various directions within new institutional economics. A central question of concern is whether theories of institutionalism based within rational choice reasoning provide a theoretical basis ... -
Responsiveness to the concerns of the poor and accountability to the commitment to poverty reduction
Gloppen, Siri; Rakner, Lise; Tostensen, Arne (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Taking its cue from the poverty-reduction thrust of the Millennium Development Goals, this paper proposes an analytical framework for answering the fundamental question: How can we increase the responsiveness of decision-makers ... -
Shaping the tax agenda: Public engagement, lobbying and tax reform in Tanzania
Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Ngowi, Prosper; Rakner, Lise (CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 5, Report, 2015-07-01)Tax reforms are no longer the exclusive domain of the International Monetary Fund, external experts, and the Ministry of Finance. Increasingly, interest groups across Africa shape the tax agenda. Business associations and ... -
Tax bargains in unlikely places: The politics of Zambian mining taxes
Rakner, Lise (The Extractive Industries and Society vol. 4 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-04-01)In developed nations, issues of taxation rank high on the agendas of political parties. In Africa’s new democracies taxation does not figure as a central campaign issue. Lack of attention to issues of taxation reflects the ... -
Taxation and tax reforms in developing countries: Illustrations from sub-Saharan Africa
Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Rakner, Lise (Research report, Research report, 2003)Many low income countries face a trilemma with respect to taxation: (1) There is an urgent and obvious need for more revenues to enable resource poor states to provide and maintain even the most basic public services. (2) ... -
Taxation, aid and democracy. An agenda for research in African countries
Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Therkildsen, Ole; Rakner, Lise; Semboja, Joseph (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)Taxation, aid and democracy are closely related in poor aid-dependent African countries. The way they tackle the issue of domestic revenue mobilisation significantly influences their potential for economic growth and ... -
The accountability funtion of supreme audit institutions in Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania
Wang, Vibeke; Rakner, Lise (Research report, Research report, 2005)Despite the important accountability functions assigned supreme audit institutions, little is known about their actual functioning and we have scant information about how supreme audit institutions interact with other ... -
The budget as theatre - the formal and informal institutional makins of the budget process in Malawi. Final report
Rakner, Lise; Mukubvu, Luke; Ngwira, Naomi; Smiddy, Kimberly; Schneider, Aaron (Research report, 2004-01-01)What can explain the apparent lack of political will to formulate, implement and monitor the budget process and public financial management in accordance with the overall goals of the Malawi Poverty Reduction Strategy ... -
The Impact of elections: The case of Uganda
Helle, Svein-Erik; Rakner, Lise (Crisis in Autocratic Regimes, Chapter, 2017-01-01)The comparative democratization literature is divided on the effects of multiparty elections in non - democratic regimes. Early analyses assumed that elections would lead to democracy, yet more recent studies highlight ... -
The Institutional Context of the 2004 General Elections in Malawi
Gloppen, Siri; Kanyongolo, Edge; Khembo, Nixon; Patel, Nadini; Rakner, Lise; Svåsand, Lars; Tostensen, Arne; Bakken, Mette (Research report, Research report, 2006)This report summarises the findings of a joint research project undertaken by the Centre for Social Research, Chr. Michelsen Institute and the Universities of Malawi and Bergen. Ensuring that elected political leaders play ... -
The interplay between poverty and electoral authoritarianism: Poverty and political mobilization in Zambia and Uganda
Helle, Svein-Erik; Rakner, Lise (CMI Working Paper WP 2012:3, Working paper, 2012-02-28)In this paper we wish to analyze the interplay between the political setting of electoral authoritarianism and economic grievances expressed in particular by an urban poor electorate in Africa. We show that the outcomes ... -
The perfect enemy: From migrants to sexual minorities
Gloppen, Siri; Rakner, Lise (CMI Brief no. 2019:05, Report, 2019-05-01)Why did Poland´s conservative government, the Law and Justice Party, launch an attack on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people (LGBT) as part of their 2019 European Parliamentary elections campaign? The ... -
The Pluralist Paradox. The Decline of Economic Interest Groups in Zambia in the 1990s
Rakner, Lise (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)The dilemma facing new democracies attempting to implement political and economic reform simultaneously is that democratisation may undermine economic reform by encouraging political participation and empowering interest ... -
The rise and fall of the mining royalty regime in Zambia
Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Fundanga, Caleb; Rakner, Lise (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 2, Report, 2016-01-01)Zambia has a long history of disputed changes of the mining tax regime with damaging effects on the working relations between the Government and the mining sector. A shared assumption has been that profit-related taxes ... -
The rise and fall of the mining royalty regime in Zambia
Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Fundanga, Caleb; Rakner, Lise (Lifting the veil of secrecy: Perspectives on international taxation and capital flight from Africa, Chapter, 2017-11-01)Zambia has a long history of disputed changes of the mining tax regime with damaging effects on the working relations between the Government and the mining sector. A shared assumption has been that profit-related taxes ... -
Trade Unions in Processes of Democratisation. A Study of Party Labour Relations in Zambia
Rakner, Lise (Research report, Research report, 1992)This report assesses the role of labour in the recent transition to multi-party rule in Zambia. The main question considered is to what extent labour, through its policy-making organ the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions ... -
Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the Re-introduction of a Multiparty System in Uganda
Makara, Sabiti; Rakner, Lise; Svåsand, Lars (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)This article addresses the process behind the National Resistance Movement’s (NRM) decision to open for a reintroduction of multiparty politics. Why would a political movement that had been in power for two decades expose ... -
Uncertainty as a Strategy: Electoral Processes in Zambia 1991-2001
Rakner, Lise; Svåsand, Lars (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Zambia has held three multiparty elections since its restoration of democracy in 1991. This peaceful transition raised expectations of a smooth process towards democratic consolidation. But similar to experiences from other ... -
Why campaigns to stop child marriage can backfire
Muriaas, Ragnhild L.; Wang, Vibeke; Benstead, Lindsay J.; Dulani, Boniface; Rakner, Lise (CMI Brief no. 2019:04, Report, 2019-03-01)