• Women's representation in local government in Pakistan: impact analysis and future policy implications
  By Fauzia Yazdani. This policy research was undertaken with the objective to bring out the policy effects of devolution on women and recommend in light of women's experience with the new system and implementation issues. 33 districts of Pakistan were taken as sample and 846 elected women district councilors, approximately 40%, were identified as target population. They were approached through a detail questionnaire. The number of respondents was 594, which is 70% of the target population. Besides data input and policy comment & feedback was received through Focus Group Discussions, personal interviews, field visits, interviews with political leadership, bureaucracies, related NGO/CSO and donors
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Haroon Rafique with article islam publication workinggroups
• "European Union legislation" journal; Institute of International Politics and Economics
  "European Union Legislation" is a periodical of applied research that publishes results of the permanent study of the European Union legislation. The Center for European Union Legislation of the Institute of International Politics and Economics has for years been doing research of this subject, systematically exploring and analyzing the legal and institutional solutions adopted in EU that are of relevance for the interests of Serbia and FR Yugoslavia. The Institute is a depository of the official documentation of the European Union that provides a basis for the studies and analyses published in the journal.
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Beáta Huszka with publication weurope workinggroups
• Anti-corruption inSoutheast Europe: first steps and policies
  By the Center for the Study of Democracy. The report sensitizes politicians and civil society to the specific set of sources of corruption in the region. The first part analyzes the origins of cross border corruption in the region which is seen as a result of the rise of transnational crime caused by the violent break-up of formerYugoslavia. It intends to show that regional factors significantly contribute to national-level corruption and could undermine national anti-corruption efforts. In the second part, the report evaluates the national circumstances in which the regional factors develop
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Vesna Pesic with publication weurope workinggroups
• Corruption in everyday experience
  By Anna Kubiak. Corruption is present in the life of every society. However, it acquires particular significance in the legal, institutional aspect and in social perception during times of great political transformations. Such a period of change is currently being experienced by society inPoland. Despite the fact that in the process of transformation of the economic and political system unquestionable success has been achieved, this does not yet mean that an efficient State has been built. Central as well as local government authority is generally perceived as inefficient, too politicized, and by the same set at attaining particular interests at the cost of the public interest
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Vesna Pesic with publication weurope workinggroups
• Crime, corruption and the failure of economic reform: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina
  By Robin Skulrak. The report examines current political and economic situation in Bosnia and the lack of progress that has been made since the signing of the Dayton agreement in 1995. Widespread corruption, weak governmental institutions and the lack of judicial independence are seen as the main contributing factors for the current sense of apathy amongst the general population with regards to the political situation. The author states that Bosnians tend to perceive themselves as members of their ethnic background rather than from a Bosnian state and the lack of civic identity is not helping grass root involvement in the democratic system
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Vesna Pesic with publication weurope workinggroups
• Is unofficial economy a source of corruption?
  By Vedran Sosic and Michael Faulend. The authors examine the connection between the unofficial economy and economic efficiency arguing that the former is not necessarily a negative influence in a transition state. The paper details various definitions of the unofficial economy and points out that the official economy and often the public services are where the main bulk of corruption, tax evasion and black economy can be found. The links between state politics and the economy are examined and the authors suggest that, in order for the economy to develop, the role of the state in the economy needs to be reduced, the discretionary power of public officials need to be limited and corrupt officials need to be exposed.
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Vesna Pesic with publication weurope workinggroups
• Media & Iraq: War Coverage Analysis
  By Mariellen Diemand. The author focuses on the role that American media played inIraq. In a time of war, free speech comes under fire byUSgovernment in the forms of censorship, false reporting and untruths and unbalanced news. The truth needed for a vibrant democracy has dissipated, leaving behind an antiseptic and sanitized version of the war inIraq, brought by media corporations - often referred to as "mouthpieces for theUSgovernment".
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Ibrahim Al-Marashi with islam online publication workinggroups
• Media, Propaganda and Iraq
  By Anup Shah. The paper discusses the roles of media propaganda during the US war in Iraq
  This part of the globalissues.org web site looks at the Iraq crisis and the propaganda that has accompanied it.
  ben bias censor censored censorship chomsky free freedom information iraq mainstream media military noam propaganda speech
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Ibrahim Al-Marashi with islam online publication workinggroups
• Nationalism and the Drive for Sovereignty in Tatarstan, 1988-92: Origins and Development
  By Sergei Kondrashov. Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, and St Martin's Press, New York, 2000. xiii + 238 pp
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - OSThreats > Eduard Ponarin with nourl opensocthreats publication workinggroups
• The war in Iraq and why the media failed us
  By David Dadge. Praeger Publishers, 2006. xiii, 193 p.
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Ibrahim Al-Marashi with book islam nourl publication workinggroups
• When news lies : media complicity and the Iraq War
  By Danny Schechter; SelectBooks, c2006. xxxii, 254 p. When News Lies is an inside story of the media war behind the Iraq War, the American government's efforts to manipulate war coverage by playing on the media's own timidity and reluctance to do its job- report the news to the public. Veteran author, video journalist, and media critic Danny Schechter ("the News Dissector") takes us on a sometimes frightening, sometimes humorous journey behind the scenes of the media machine that sold us an invasion and rallied the public to support it.
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Ibrahim Al-Marashi with book islam nourl publication workinggroups
• "How to improve transition in next decade", Savic, Nebojsa
  Last ten years countries in transition (CIT) have gained tremendous attention, in part owing to their transforming to market economies, especially when we talk about Central European CIT, but also owing to the needs to improve output recovery in them. The main focus of the paper is [i] on the achieved results in the first ten years of transition, especially in the field of macroeconomic stability and ending moderate inflation, [ii] on the possible exchange rate regime sand dilemas over Washington Consensus and [iii] on the necessary institutional requirements, especially financial, for better devlopment in the future.
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Beáta Huszka with publication weurope workinggroups
• Ethnic Conflict, Secession, and Political Violence in Tatarstan and Chechnya: The Role of the Russian State
  By Elizabeth Frombgen. The research represents a comparative analysis of the two cases of autonomies in Russia, - Chechnya and Tarastan and attempts to understand why the Russian state invaded the Republic of Chechnya in 1994, but signed a bilateral treaty with the Republic of Tatarstan in 1994, despite significant similarities between the cases. Both Tatarstan and Chechnya are Islamic nations/nationalities brought under Russian rule by force. Both were autonomous republics in the Russian Republic at the end of the Soviet Union and are currently republics in the Russian Federation. Both refused to sign the Russian Constitution of 1993, and both declared independence or sovereignty
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - OSThreats > Eduard Ponarin with opensocthreats publication workinggroups
• European prospects of the Western Balkans
  By the Centre for Eastern Studies. The Western Balkans is a European Union term, which refers to the area of the former Yugoslavia, minus Slovenia and plus Albania. As yet none of these countries have acquired the status of a European Union applicant country. If the European Union does not take decisive action to truly integrate the Western Balkans in regard to the possible joining of the European Union the region may slip into another crisis and lose all chance of integration with Europe. This paper looks at what it calls the burden of recent history, stereotypes about the Balkans and the European Union's current and future role in the region
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Vesna Pesic with publication weurope workinggroups
• Georgia: foreign policy and national security priorities
  By Alexander Rondeli. As a result of the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, 14 independent, small states have emerged. All are trying to develop democratic societies and market economies. All are trying to find their place and role in teh international political and economic systems.Georgia is one of the three small states in teh South Caucasus, which became independent in 1991 as a result of the Soviet break-up. The begining of Georgia's sovereign existence could be characterised as the most disastrous of all the post-Soviet states. The biggest hindrance to Georgia's prospects of developing into a modern, European-type state is its fragile statehood and internal political weakness
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Wider Europe > Fariz Ismailzade with publication weurope workinggroups
• Legal and Judicial Development in Yemen
  The World Bank Group. The project aims at implementing a pilot program of judicial training, to assess, and enhance the effectiveness of the judiciary, provide business advise, as well as develop an economic legislation. The project components include: the judicial development; the legal development; the development of a public awareness campaign, through policy and program management, will provide better understanding of the improved judicial and legal systems.
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Majid Mohammadi with islam online organization publication workinggroups
• The politics of participation: evidence from five districts in Pakistan
  By Mehr Latif. This study concentrated on three aspects of CCBs: their leadership; ability to encourage citizen participation; and their responsiveness to the needs of local peoples. This brief was written to provide policymakers and practitioners with information on how CCB projects are being implemented and recommendations on how to make them stronger. The paper addresses four policy problems impacting CCBs: 1) Inefficiencies in the administrative systems facilitating the boards; 2) Cooption of the boards by an individual or a group; 3) Legal questions about ownership of CCB projects; and 4) Questions of sustainability that arise in part from these ownership issues
  in x2006 Fellows-ALL > 2006 Fellows - Islam > Haroon Rafique with article islam publication workinggroups

« Previous
workinggroups from all users