Browsing Chr. Michelsens Institutt by Subject "Democratization"
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Accountability on the Move. The Parliament of Angola
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)The Parliament of Angola was established and elected in 1992 in a watershed election that coincided with the peace process in Angola and the democratisation process in much of Africa. There has still been no second election, ... -
Angola 2003/2004. Waiting for elections
(CMI Reports, Research report, 2004)The present report is the fifth in a series of annual studies carried out by the Chr. Michelsen Institute on socio-economic and political trends in Angola, at the request of the Norwegian development cooperation authorities. ... -
Can national identity be built on local democracy?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)In Ethiopia, with 85 % of the population in agriculture, most of them illiterate, democratisation has to work against adverse experience: Peasants can refer back to democratic traditions on local level. But their experience ... -
Comisiones de la Verdad de Chile: Verdad y Reparaciones como Política de Estado
(CMI Report R 2018:14, Research report, 2018-10-01)Este informe reconstruye la actuación de las dos comisiones de verdad constituidas en Chile para dar cuenta de la responsabilidad estatal en las violaciones a los derechos humanos cometidas entre 1973 y 1990 durante la ... -
Comisión del Esclarecimiento Histórico: Guatemala, entre la memoria del silencio y el silencio de la memoria
(CMI Report R 2018:13, Research report, 2018-10-01)El Informe Final de la Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico de Guatemala, presentado en 1999, dio cuenta de las graves violaciones de Derechos Humanos perpetrados durante tres décadas de conflicto armado interno (1962–1996). ... -
Democratization of a Dependent State: The Case of Afghanistan
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)The post-Taliban democratic reforms in Afghanistan were in part a recreation of the past. Afghanistan has had six constitutions between 1923 and 1990, and most provided for national assemblies and elections in one form or ... -
Explaining Hamas's Changing Electoral Strategy, 1996-2006
(Government and Opposition vol. 48 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-01)Hamas, the most influential Islamist party in the occupied Palestinian territories, replaced its strategy of electoral boycott in 1996 with participation in 2006 – a change not explained in the literature. Assisted by party ... -
Human Rights Violations and the Paradox of Democratic Transition. A Study of Chile and Argentina
(Research report, Research report, 1994)This comparative analysis of recent transitions to democracy in Argentina and Chile examines (1) the impact of the type of transition on democratic consolidation; (2) how resolving the problem of past human rights violations ... -
Hvorfor har militæret fortsatt makten i Burma?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1993)This paper seeks to explain why the military has remained in power in Burma after the country-wide uprising for democracy in 1988. It is argued that a theoretical approach has to include a focus on the particular actors ... -
La Comisión de la Verdad para El Salvador: Manteniendo la paz a cambio de justicia
(CMI Report R 2018:12, Research report, 2018-10-01)El Informe final de la Comisión de la Verdad para El Salvador, publicado en 1993, tiene por objetivo dar a conocer las causas y hechos del enfrentamiento político-militar entre los gobiernos salvadoreños y el Frente Farabundo ... -
Political Institutions and Economic Reform: Zambia and South Africa in Comparative Context
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)This paper presents the theoretical and methodological framework of a joint research project by Lise Rakner and Tor Skålnes, "Political Liberalisation and Economic Reform in Southern Africa". The project consists of two ... -
Post-war reconciliation and democratization: Concepts, goals and lessons learnt
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Support for parliaments : Tanzania and beyond
(Research report, Research report, 2010)This report presents an analysis of the Parliament of Tanzania (which includes the Bunge in Dodoma and the House of Representatives in Zanzibar), which has only recently taken up its ‘checks and balances’ functions. The ... -
The Pluralist Paradox. The Decline of Economic Interest Groups in Zambia in the 1990s
(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 Role of the Judiciary in the 2004 General Elections in Malawi
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)The courts in Malawi have played a prominent role in political life since the democratic transition in 1993, which came about after three decades of repressive authoritatian rule. Whilst the quality of electoral politics ... -
Truth in transition. The role of truth commissions in political transition in Chile and El Salvador
(Research report, Research report, 1999)Truth Commissions are increasingly being used as one mechanism in a broader strategy to consolidate democratic governance following a period of authoritarian rule. However, there has been little research on the impact ... -
Women in Politics in Malawi
(Book, 2016-09-01)About two decades ago, in Malawi, the issue of the numbers of women in politics was not newsworthy. Few stakeholders showed any concern about the low number of women in politics. Despite an overwhelming increase in the ...