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Academic Performance in comparative perspective

Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2019-08-05)

East Africa has traditionally had good universities. The data collected and made available by Scimago allow one to assess how good East African universities are in comparative perspective....
Analysis of the Relationship between Women’s Participation and the Rate of Corruption in the Post-Soviet States

Baktybayev, Bektas (Pusat Penelitian Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora Kontemporer, 2020-04)

Corruption remains one of the main problems of Post-Soviet states. Georgia, Belarus, Lithuania, and Latvia are doing relatively well compared to other Post-Soviet states. Popular explanations for high corruption rates are ...
A new index of legislative oversight

Pelizzo, Riccardo (2012-01)

The purpose of this paper is to present a new index of legislative oversight. Building on the work by Stapenhurst (2011), who argued that a proper index of legislative oversight capacity should reflect not only legislatures’ ...
Party system fragmentation and PAC performance: the Case of India

Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kindra, Gurprit (2012)

While the political consequences of party system fragmentation have extensively been discussed in the literature, little to no attention has been paid to whether the fragmentation of the party system affects the performance ...
The costs of party system change: the case of Tanzania

Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim; Kinyondo, Abel (African Politics and Policy 1.3 (2015): 1-11., 2015)

Pelizzo, Kinyondo and Nwokora argue that party system changes and increases in party system changeability have generally been associated with a worsening democratic quality.
The political consequences of party system change

Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim (Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Politics & Policy, Volume 43, No. 4 (2015), 2015)

This article engages one of the important gaps in the literature on party system effects: the consequences of party system change. We discuss how existing empirical approaches to party system change do not actually capture ...