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  • CENTRAL ASIA PERFORMANCE REVIEW IN LAND GOVERNANCE INDICES AND ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORKS 
    Mukhtarova, Akbikesh (Deutsch-Kasachische Universität, 2021-09-22)
    Academic scholarship captures different land governance dimensions while focusing mainly on agrarian, legal, and economic aspects. However, little to no attention is paid to land governance consideration through public policy ...
  • Cohesion, sharing, and integration in Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin (Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2011)
    The devolved government in Northern Ireland pledged to work for a `shared and better future for all' in its Programme for Government 2008 ^ 11. In pursuit of this goal it launched a consultation document entitled Programme ...
  • Conflict and Cooperation in Global Commons: Theory and Evidence from the Caspian Sea 
    Orazgaliyev, Serik; Araral, Eduardo (IGITUR, UTRECHT PUBLISHING & ARCHIVING SERVICES, 2019-06)
    The conventional literature on the commons involves small, local resources such as coastal fisheries, community forestry, small-scale irrigation, and community pasture. We focus on conflict and cooperation in the Caspian ...
  • Consolidating peace: Rethinking the community relations model in Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin (Administration, 2018)
    Northern Ireland has now moved from ‘negative’ peace (the absence of violence, largely) to ‘positive’ peace (confidence-building measures to consolidate gains in voting practice and in reducing discrimination against ...
  • Constitutional reforms should recognise important role of political parties 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (The Astana Times, 2017-02-14)
    One of the giants of political science, Maurice Duverger, once observed that knowing political parties was more important than knowing a constitution to understand politics...
  • Corruption Perception Index 2019 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2020-01-25)
    Transparency International has just released the Corruption Perception Index for 2019. One of the notable changes revealed by Transparency international’s data is that Kazakhstan improved its score by 3 points -from 31 to ...
  • COVID-19 AND THE NEW NORMAL OF ORGANIZATIONS AND EMPLOYEES: AN OVERVIEW 
    Raghavan, Aarthi; Demircioglu, Mehmet Akif; Orazgaliyev, Serik (Sustainability, 2021-10-28)
    The COVID-19 pandemic has hit organizations and employees in every sector worldwide in unprecedented ways. It became extremely difficult for organizations and employees across sectors to operate under increased mobility ...
  • Dealing with Sectoral Corruption in Bangladesh: developing citizen involvement 
    Knox, Colin (Public Administration and Development, 2009)
    Bangladesh has had a troubled political history since gaining independence in 1971 and is also beleaguered by poverty and natural environmental disasters. In particular however, corruption is blighting its prospects for ...
  • “DELIVER AFRICA FROM DEBTS”: GOOD GOVERNANCE ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH TO SAVE THE CONTINENT FROM DEBT ONSLAUGHT 
    Kinyondo, Abel; Pelizzo, Riccardo; Byaro, Mwoya (World Affairs, 2021-08-03)
    The present article analyzes the debt–economic growth nexus in African countries while controlling for the impact of good governance indicators. In contrast to a long tradition of scholarship that has consistently suggested ...
  • Democratic Renewal in Fragmental Communities: The Northern Ireland Case 
    Knox, Colin (Local Governance, 2003)
    Northern Ireland is perhaps the locus extremis of fragmental communities in the United Kingdom. The ethno-national tensions and political violence that have ravaged the Province for over 30 years continue unabated at a ...
  • Determinants of Bribery: Theory and Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Araral, Eduardo; Pak, Anton; Xun, Wu (African Development Review, 2016-06-01)
    The paper investigates the determinants of bribery in sub-Saharan Africa by using probit models and data from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey of 10,457 firms in 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa from 2009 to 2013. By ...
  • The determinants of Party System Change in Sub-Saharan Africa 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan, 2018)
    This article examines what socio-economic factors are conducive to changes in the patterns of inter-party competition in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The literature has in recent years paid considerable attention to measuring ...
  • Devolution in Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul (Public Money and Management: Debate Piece, 2010)
    Northern Ireland should not have received an invitation to the ‘10 years of devolution’ celebration party! Power was devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly and its Executive Committee of Ministers on Thursday 2nd December ...
  • Devolution - the Northern Ireland Way: An Exercise in 'Creative Ambiguity' 
    Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul (Environment and Planning Series C, 2005)
    Devolution in Northern Ireland followed directly from the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement which provided, inter alia, for a democratically elected Assembly ‘inclusive in its membership, capable of exercising executive ...
  • DIRECT AND NON-LINEAR INNOVATION EFFECTS OFDEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS 
    Suzuki, Kohei; Ha, Hyesong; Avellaneda, Claudia N. (Wiley, 2020-04-08)
    Among these pressures, demographic shifts seem to boostinnovation, as the public sector responds to the arrivalof migrants and to community changes in race and eth-nic composition. However, we know little about innova-tion ...
  • EFFECTS OF PARTY SYSTEM FLUIDITY ON LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT AND GOOD GOVERNANCE INDICATORS--IN THE CONTEXT OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES 
    Mukhtarova, Akbikesh (Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CRJSSH), 2020-10)
    While analyzing data for 47 Sub-Saharan African countries, this article explores the correlation between Legislative Oversight and Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) and the effects of Party System Fluidity on WGI and ...
  • Enhancing Citizen Participation for Development in Tanzania 
    Kinyondo, Abel; Pelizzo, Riccardo (Otoritas, 2019)
    The literature has repeatedly emphasized that citizen participation is requisite for good governance. Indeed, when citizens participate in various public activities, they can voice their demands, they can invite the ...
  • Equality and equity: An emerging government policy in northern ireland 
    Knox, Colin; Hughes, Joanne (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1994)
    A series of equality and equity measures has been introduced by the British Government to tackle the seemingly intractable problems of Northern Ireland. These measures represent a range of initiatives in the areas of social ...
  • Establishing Research Legitimacy in the Contested Political Ground of Contemporary Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin (Qualitative Research, 2001)
    Despite the plethora of literature on the macro politics of Northern Ireland, there is a dearth of material on grassroots activity, in particular the dynamic between communities and paramilitary groups which enforce ‘law ...
  • From the Margins to the Mainstream: Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin (Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, 2013)
    Paramilitary organisations exerted a stranglehold on working class loyalist and republican communities in Northern Ireland during the conflict. In the absence of an effective and legitimate policing service, paramilitaries ...