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  • Public accounts committees in the Pacific region 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (2013)
    the paper analyzes the organization, the powers, the functioning and the performance of Public Account Committees in the Pacific region. In doing so the paper highlights some of the factors have contributed to making PACs ...
  • Government accountability and legislative oversight 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption, 2013-11)
    This handbook summarizes the findings and implications of recent research on legislative oversight in countries with presidential forms of government. It also updates and revises good practice in parliamentary systems. ...
  • PACs, Presidential Systems, and Good Governance 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (2013-11)
  • PACs and their functional equivalents in South East Asia. 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (2013-12)
    In this presentation, we present the preliinary results of an analysis of the tools and the committees in charge of performing budgetary and financial oversight in south East Asian countries
  • Professionalising the Civil Service: The Masters in Public Administration 
    Mahon, Denis; Knox, Colin (Perspectives on Pedagogy and Practice, 2014)
    The purpose of this paper is to explore the conception and implementation of a collaborative approach to public sector professional learning which seeks to explore some of the most sensitive and important relationships ...
  • Access and Performance Inequalities – post-primary education in Northern Ireland 
    Borooah, Vani; Knox, Colin (Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 2014)
    Northern Ireland's schools system is undergoing a radical review. The first stage in this process is to reform the post-primary sector in response to the Education Minister's call to 'put pupils first' and raise the overall ...
  • Northern Ireland: where is the peace dividend? 
    Knox, Colin (Policy and Politics, 2014)
    Northern Ireland has been described as a ‘post conflict’ society with a stable political environment following the peace process, and yet it is a hugely segregated society with significant social deprivation. With peace ...
  • Public accounts committees in Eastern Africa: a comparative analysis 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel (2014)
    Properly functioning Public Accounts Committees (PACs) are essential for promoting good governance, preventing misallocation of resources and curbing corruption. The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the organization, ...
  • Resource boom and inequality: Kazakhstan as a case study 
    Howie, Peter; Atakhanova, Zauresh (Resources Policy, 2014-03)
    Our research investigates the impact of a major resource boom on income inequality within Kazakhstan's regions using household-level data across the entire income distribution and within the top and bottom halves of the ...
  • Research within Evaluation: the case of Northern Ireland In K.Bush and C. Duggan (eds) Evaluation in the Extreme: Research Impact and Politics in Violently Divided Societies 
    Knox, Colin (2015)
    This chapter looks at the evaluation of research within programme evaluation under four key headings:  The evaluation of research on the theory of change which provides the rationale for the programme.  An evaluation ...
  • Segregation, Inequality, and Educational Performance in Northern Ireland: Problems and Solutions 
    Borooah, Vani; Knox, Colin (International Journal of Education Development, 2015)
    Some 16 years after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, the legacy of the conflict in Northern Ireland is most clearly evident in the delivery of key public services. The focus of this paper is the highly segregated and ...
  • Tourism and employment: the case of Togo 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel (African Politics and Policy, 2015)
    This paper sets to investigate whether and to what extent the development of tourism sector in Togo is associated with and possibly responsible for economic growth, employment creation and generation of wealth in the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Sharing power and fragmenting public services: complex government in Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin (Public Money and Management, 2015)
    There are obvious complexities in the governance of Northern Ireland. Longawaited political stability, power-sharing and settled devolution come with a highly-fragmented structure of public services. In addition, because ...
  • State-Society Relations: NGOs in Kazakhstan 
    Knox, Colin; Yessimova, Sholpan (Journal of Civil Society, 2015)
    Kazakhstan has provided the economic exemplar for other Commonwealth of Independent State (CIS) countries since its independence in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It has been classified by the World Bank ...
  • Governance, business environment and foreign direct investments 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Omer, Baris (African Politics and Policy, 2015)
    In this paper we investigate the relationship between the quality of governance, the business environment and foreign direct investments. Looking at 49 countries in Africa, we present evidence supporting the claim that the ...
  • 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.
  • African Politics and Policy, №1 
    Baris, Omer F.; Kilama, Blandina; Pelizzo, Riccardo (Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy, 2015-03)
  • Measures of corruption 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (2015-04)
    The presentation provides an overview of the measures of corruption that can be used to track corruption across countries and over time.
  • African Politics and Policy №2 
    Niall, Duggan; Romualda, Stormy; Pelizzo, Riccardo (Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy, 2015-04)