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  • New Trajectories of Civil Service Reform in Kazakhstan 
    Janenova, Saltanat (The Astana Times, 2016-02-16)
    Civil service reform is not a new phenomenon for Kazakhstan, which has positioned itself as a leader among Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) states in terms of improving the civil service system. However, despite ...
  • New year, old problems 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2020-01-22)
  • 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 ...
  • Objective or Perception-Based: A Debate on the Ideal Measure of Corruption 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Baris, Omer; Janenova, Saltanat (Cornell International Law Journal,, 2017)
    In Kazakhstan, several institutions have developed new measures of corruption. This Article addresses the doubts that empirical analyses have raised as to whether and to what extent existing measures of corruption provide ...
  • Organization, mandate, performance: PACs in the Asian region 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Bandyopadhyay, Sruti (2013)
    The paper is divided in four parts. Part One provides some information concerning the size, the partisan affiliation of the Chairpersons, the representation of opposition parties and the size of the support staff of the ...
  • 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
  • Partnership With Government: An Exit Strategy for Philanthropies? 
    Knox, Colin; Quirk, Padraic (The Foundation Review. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.9707/1944-5660.1348, 2017)
    This article is a case study of Atlantic Philanthropies’ work in Northern Ireland, where it supported three thematic intervention areas: aging; children and young people; and reconciliation and human rights. Atlantic, a ...
  • 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 ...
  • Peace Building in Northern Ireland: A Role for Civil Society 
    Knox, Colin (Social Policy and Society, 2010)
    Northern Ireland has witnessed significant political progress with devolution and a power sharing Executive in place since May 2007. These political achievements, however, conceal a highly polarised society characterised ...
  • Problems won’t end in January 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (African Politics and Policy Newsletter, 2020-01-29)
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Public councils in Kazakhstan: a case of emergent participative democracy? 
    Knox, Colin; Janenova, Saltanat (Central Asian Survey, 2018)
    As Kazakhstan aims to become one of the top 30 developed countries by 2050, it is increasingly turning to ways which will improve its governance, one of which is greater participation by its citizens in the decision-making ...
  • Reconciliation and Human Rights in Northern Ireland: A False Dichotomy? 
    Beirne, Maggie; Knox, Colin (Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2013)
    Peace building interventions in Northern Ireland have attracted at least two approaches—those which advocate from a human rights-based perspective, and others which promote community relations and reconciliation as a ...
  • 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 ...
  • ‘See no evil, hear no evil’: Insidious Paramilitary Violence in Northern Ireland 
    Knox, Colin (British Journal of Criminology, 2002)
    Northern Ireland has been variously described as having an ‘imperfect peace’ in which ‘acceptable levels of violence’ persist. Despite the endorsement of the main political parties to the principles of ‘democracy and ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Special Issue on Northern Ireland “Devolution, Governance and the Peace Process” 
    Carmichael, Paul; Knox, Colin (Terrorism and Political Violence, 2004)
    Devolution and the associated mechanisms of governance - a power-sharing Executive, elected Assembly, cross-border bodies, a reformed system of public administration and civic engagement, are part of the wider mosaic of ...