Blar i Bora-import på forfatter "Rakner, Lise"
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Administering Uganda's 2006 Multiparty Elections: The Role of the Electoral Commission
Makara, Sabiti; Rakner, Lise; Sabastiano, Rwengabo (CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2008)On 23 February, 2006, Ugandan voters could for the first time since 1980 choose a party of their choice rather than select individual candidates within the Nation Resistance Movement (NRM) system. This paper focuses on the ... -
Botswana - 30 years of economic growth, democracy and aid: Is there a connection?
Rakner, Lise (Research report, Research report, 1996)This report has been commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an input to a proposed study on the impact of aid on Botswana. The report is based on a review of literature focusing on the development of ... -
Do Interest Groups Matter in Economic Policy-Making? Reflections from a Zambian case study
Rakner, Lise (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1994)The current debate within development research strongly emphasise the role of interest groups in developing and sustaining democratic and liberal economic reforms. With this debate as its point of departure, the paper ... -
Fissions and fusions, foes and friends: Party system re-structuring in Malawi in the 2004 general elections
Rakner, Lise; Svåsand, Lars (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)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 institutionalization of the party systems have so far not been ... -
Governance Assessments and the Paris Declaration. A CMI Issues Paper Prepared for the UNDP Bergen Seminar September 2007
Rakner, Lise; Wang, Vibeke (CMI Reports, Research report, 2007)Is it possible to carry out governance assessments and develop diagnostic tools for enhancing governance while adhering to the principles of the Paris Declaration? Or, are the two processes largely contradictory? What ... -
Governance Assessments and the Paris Declaration. A CMI Issues Paper Prepared for the UNDP Bergen Seminar September 2007
Rakner, Lise; Wang, Vibeke (Research report, Research report, 2007)Is it possible to carry out governance assessments and develop diagnostic tools for enhancing governance while adhering to the principles of the Paris Declaration? Or, are the two processes largely contradictory? What ... -
Human Rights and Development. The Discourse in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Gloppen, Siri; Rakner, Lise (Research report, Research report, 1993)The aim of this study is to review central debates on human rights within the social sciences and humanities with a view to enumerating the present state of knowledge about human rights and development. The central topics ... -
Maybe free but not fair: Electoral administration in Malawi 1994-2004
Rakner, Lise; Svåsand, Lars (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)Entering the third decade of multiparty democracy on the African continent, incumbents appear able to secure electoral mandates without opening for extensive political liberties. The paper argues that the administration ... -
Menneskerettigheter og utviklingsprosesser. Sentrale tema i samfunnsvitenskapelig og humanistisk menneskerettighetsforskning
Gloppen, Siri; Rakner, Lise (Report, Research report, 1991)Rapporten inngår i studien "Menneskerettigheter i et utvikingsteoretisk perspektiv", som Programmet for menneskerettighetsstudier ved Chr. Michelsens Institutt har utført på oppdrag fra Departementet for utvikingshjelp/ ... -
Multiparty elections in Africa's new democracies
Rakner, Lise; Svåsand, Lars (Research report, Research report, 2002)Why has the electoral process in the newly democratised African states had such limited impacts? How can the continued one-party dominance on the continent be explained despite the reintroduction of political freedoms, substantial ... -
Political Institutions and Economic Reform: Zambia and South Africa in Comparative Context
Rakner, Lise; Skålnes, Tor (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 ... -
Poverty reduction strategy processes in Malawi and Zambia
Bwalya, Edgar; Rakner, Lise; Svåsand, Lars; Tostensen, Arne; Tsoka, Maxton (Research report, Research report, 2004)Malawi and Zambia are poor and heavily indebted countries whose dependence on foreign aid is pronounced. They both qualify for debt relief in terms of the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative under the auspices ... -
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 ... -
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 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 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 ... -
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 ...