Browsing Bora-import by Subject "Democratization"

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    • Accountability on the Move. The Parliament of Angola 

      Amundsen, Inge; Abreu, Cesaltina; Hoygaard, Laurinda (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 

      Miranda, Armindo (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? 

      Pausewang, Siegfried (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 ...

    • Democratization of a Dependent State: The Case of Afghanistan 

      Suhrke, Astri (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 ...

    • Human Rights Violations and the Paradox of Democratic Transition. A Study of Chile and Argentina 

      Skaar, Elin (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? 

      Danevad, Andreas (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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Post-war reconciliation and democratization: Concepts, goals and lessons learnt 

      Hydén, Göran (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)

    • Support for parliaments : Tanzania and beyond 

      Amundsen, Inge (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 

      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 Role of the Judiciary in the 2004 General Elections in Malawi 

      Gloppen, Siri; Kanyongolo, Edge (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 

      Gairdner, David (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 ...