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The Impact of Europeanization on the Quality of Democracy in Romania

ALBESCU, Andrada - In: Europolity – Continuity and Change in European … 1 (2007) 1, pp. 35-50

In this project I propose to analyse the impact of the Europeanization process on democracy’s quality in Romania …. Although there are several studies about the evolution of Romanian democracy, those are more or less connected with the quality … of aboriginal democracy. This is why this essay supplies a more detailed research about this aspect, seeing the context …

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Values and norms matter: on the basic determinants of long-run economic development

Voigt, Stefan; Park, Sang-Min - 2008

Over the last couple of decades, it has become a commonplace to claim that institutions matter" for economic development. Yet, institutions are not exogenous but the result of hu-man action. It is argued here that the values and norms held by substantial parts of society’s members are an...

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Modernización del Estado: Estrategia sectorial (2003)

Inter-American Development Bank; Banco Interamericano … - 2003

El objetivo de la estrategia de modernización del Estado (GN-2235-1) es establecer los conceptos básicos que deben guiar las intervenciones del Banco en esta área. El documento identifica cuatro campos prioritarios para la acción del Banco. Se opta por una definición transversal, basada en...

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Revista Integración & Comercio: Año 2 : No. 6 : Septiembre-diciembre, 1998 Title: Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 2 : No. 6 : September-December, 1998

Alejandro Gutiérrez S.; Grandi, Jorge; Granados, Jaime; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

La Revista Integración & Comercio del BID incluye artículos referidos a las distintas manifestaciones del proceso de integración en América Latina y el Caribe, a la integración hemisférica y, también, a los procesos con igual orientación que se llevan a cabo en otras partes del mundo....

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Promoting Citizen Participation in Bank Activities: Corporate Strategy (2004)

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2004

The object of this paper is to establish general guidelines and criteria and specify areas of action in which the Bank can expand, strengthen, and systematize citizen participation in its activities. In contrast to the Bank's sector strategies, which set priorities for its work in a specific...

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Civil society participation in EU governance

Heidbreder, Eva G. - In: Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG) (2012)

For the longest time, the participation of civil society has not been an area of interest for neither EU researchers nor political decision-makers. This changed with a rising interest in the democratic credentials of the European Union. With the end of the initial permissive consensus on EU...

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The moral foundations of liberal democracy : about the necessity of liberal civic virtues

Egle, Christoph - 2000

Numerous sociological studies describe the status of contemporary liberal democracy as frightening. Taking up these … investigations, this article asks for the preconditions of liberal democracy, particularly for their moral foundations. In contrast … a moral quality of the citizens is a necessary prerequisite for the persistence of a liberal democracy. The second aim …

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Foreign aid and democratic consolidation in Zambia

Rakner, Lise - 2012

and agencies of restraint. The study argues for an enhanced emphasis on democracy assistance that may strengthen …

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Transformation from below in Bolivia and Bangladesh: Decentralization, local governance, and systemic change

Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2015

only decentralization, but also democracy, from the bottom up. Beginning with Bolivia, I explore the deep economic and …

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Democratic Innovations Help Fight Covid-19 in Latin America

Pogrebinschi, Thamy - 2020

While some Latin American countries remain in the middle of the pandemic and their governments have been either unable or unwilling to do anything about it, civil society has begun to initiate a considerable number of digital democratic innovations.

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