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Improving Democracy Assistance

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309117364
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Improving Democracy Assistance written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-07-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 25 years, the United States has made support for the spread of democracy to other nations an increasingly important element of its national security policy. These efforts have created a growing demand to find the most effective means to assist in building and strengthening democratic governance under varied conditions. Since 1990, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has supported democracy and governance (DG) programs in approximately 120 countries and territories, spending an estimated total of $8.47 billion (in constant 2000 U.S. dollars) between 1990 and 2005. Despite these substantial expenditures, our understanding of the actual impacts of USAID DG assistance on progress toward democracy remains limited-and is the subject of much current debate in the policy and scholarly communities. This book, by the National Research Council, provides a roadmap to enable USAID and its partners to assess what works and what does not, both retrospectively and in the future through improved monitoring and evaluation methods and rebuilding USAID's internal capacity to build, absorb, and act on improved knowledge.

Evaluating Democracy Assistance

Author : Krishna Kumar
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781588268587
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Democracy Assistance written by Krishna Kumar and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the international community providing billions of dollars each year to promote democratic institutions/cultures in transitional and developing countries, rigorous evaluations have become essential for determining the effectiveness, as well as the future direction, of democracy assistance programs. Krishna Kumar provides a unique, practical guide to the on-the-ground tasks of evaluating and monitoring these programs, from planning to implementation to preparing and presenting evaluation reports. Kumar assesses virtually all of the evaluation and monitoring approaches currently in play, pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of each and suggesting alternative approaches where appropriate. Packed with valuable insights, his book will serve as an essential tool for those who are involved in democracy assistance programming and evaluation, fund it, or simply want to learn more about it.

Evaluating Democracy Support

Author : Harry Blair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789185724130
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Democracy Support written by Harry Blair and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by: Harry Blair, Héctor Chayer, Sandra Elena, Hanne Lund Madsen, Natalia Miromanova, Patrick D. Molutsi, Margaret J. Sarles, Fredrik Uggla and Michael Wodzicki

Improving Democracy Assistance

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309177715
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Improving Democracy Assistance written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 25 years, the United States has made support for the spread of democracy to other nations an increasingly important element of its national security policy. These efforts have created a growing demand to find the most effective means to assist in building and strengthening democratic governance under varied conditions. Since 1990, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has supported democracy and governance (DG) programs in approximately 120 countries and territories, spending an estimated total of $8.47 billion (in constant 2000 U.S. dollars) between 1990 and 2005. Despite these substantial expenditures, our understanding of the actual impacts of USAID DG assistance on progress toward democracy remains limited-and is the subject of much current debate in the policy and scholarly communities. This book, by the National Research Council, provides a roadmap to enable USAID and its partners to assess what works and what does not, both retrospectively and in the future through improved monitoring and evaluation methods and rebuilding USAID's internal capacity to build, absorb, and act on improved knowledge.

Democratic Evaluation and Democracy

Author : Donna Podems
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681237903
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Evaluation and Democracy written by Donna Podems and published by IAP. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratic evaluation brings a way of thinking about evaluation’s role in society and in particular, its role in strengthening social justice. Yet the reality of applying it, and what happens when it is applied particularly outside the West, is unclear. Set in South Africa, a newly formed democracy in Southern Africa, the book affords an in-depth journey that immerses a reader into the realities of evaluation and its relation to democracy. The book starts with the broader introductory chapters that set the scene for more detailed ones which bring thorough insights into national government, local government, and civil societies’ experience of evaluation, democratic evaluation and their understanding of how it contributes to strengthening democracy (or not). A teaching case, the book concludes by providing guiding questions that encourage reflection, discussion and learning that ultimately aims to inform practice and theory.

Assessing the Quality of Democracy

Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882869
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Assessing the Quality of Democracy written by Larry Diamond and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-11-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Accountability and Democratic Governance Orientations and Principles for Development

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264183639
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Book Synopsis DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Accountability and Democratic Governance Orientations and Principles for Development by : OECD

Download or read book DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Accountability and Democratic Governance Orientations and Principles for Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing recognition of the need for new approaches to the ways in which donors support accountability, but no broad agreement on what changed practice looks like. This publication aims to provide more clarity on the emerging practice.

Assessing the Quality of Democracy

Author : David Beetham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789185724444
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Assessing the Quality of Democracy written by David Beetham and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introducing Democracy

Author : David Beetham
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231040871
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Democracy written by David Beetham and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of questions and answers covering the principles of democracy, including human rights, free and fair elections, open and accountable government, and civil society.

Participatory Democratic Innovations in Europe

Author : Brigitte Geißel
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 3847403710
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Participatory Democratic Innovations in Europe by : Brigitte Geißel

Download or read book Participatory Democratic Innovations in Europe written by Brigitte Geißel and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representative democracy is often seen as a stable institutional system insusceptible to change. However, the preferences of the broad public are changing and representative, group based democracy has lost importance. This development made it necessary to change established ways of decision making and to introduce participatory democratic innovations. Many national and sub-national governments followed this route and implemented various kinds of participatory innovations, i.e. the inclusion of citizens into processes of political will-formation and decisionmaking. The authors analyse and evaluate the various effects of these innovations in Europe, providing a bigger picture of the benefits and disadvantages different democratic innovations can result in.

The Taming of Democracy Assistance

Author : Sarah Sunn Bush
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107069645
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Taming of Democracy Assistance written by Sarah Sunn Bush and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most government programs seeking to aid democracy abroad do not directly confront dictators. This book explains how organizational politics 'tamed' democracy assistance.

Monitoring Democracy

Author : Judith G. Kelley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400842522
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Monitoring Democracy written by Judith G. Kelley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, governments and NGOs--in an effort to promote democracy, freedom, fairness, and stability throughout the world--have organized teams of observers to monitor elections in a variety of countries. But when more organizations join the practice without uniform standards, are assessments reliable? When politicians nonetheless cheat and monitors must return to countries even after two decades of engagement, what is accomplished? Monitoring Democracy argues that the practice of international election monitoring is broken, but still worth fixing. By analyzing the evolving interaction between domestic and international politics, Judith Kelley refutes prevailing arguments that international efforts cannot curb government behavior and that democratization is entirely a domestic process. Yet, she also shows that democracy promotion efforts are deficient and that outside actors often have no power and sometimes even do harm. Analyzing original data on over 600 monitoring missions and 1,300 elections, Kelley grounds her investigation in solid historical context as well as studies of long-term developments over several elections in fifteen countries. She pinpoints the weaknesses of international election monitoring and looks at how practitioners and policymakers might help to improve them.

The SAGE Handbook of Evaluation

Author : Ian Shaw
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446270556
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Evaluation written by Ian Shaw and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive handbook, an examination of the complexities of contemporary evaluation contributes to the ongoing dialogue that arises in professional efforts to evaluate people-related programs, policies, and practices. The SAGE Handbook of Evaluation is a unique and authoritative resource consisting of 25 chapters covering a range of evaluation theories and techniques in a single, accessible volume. With contributions from world-leading figures in their fields overseen by an eminent international editorial board, this handbook is an extensive and user-friendly resource.

Democracy in Motion

Author : Tina Nabatchi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019999613X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Motion written by Tina Nabatchi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the field of deliberative civic engagement is growing rapidly around the world, our knowledge and understanding of its practice and impacts remain highly fragmented. Democracy in Motion represents the first comprehensive attempt to assess the practice and impact of deliberative civic engagement. Organized in a series of chapters that address the big questions of deliberative civic engagement, it uses theory, research, and practice from around the world to explore what we know about, how we know it, and what remains to be understood. More than a simple summary of research, the book is designed to be accessible and useful to a wide variety of audiences, from scholars and practitioners working in numerous disciplines and fields, to public officials, activists, and average citizens who are seeking to utilize deliberative civic engagement in their communities. The book significantly enhances current scholarship, serving as a guide to existing research and identifying useful future research. It also has promise for enhancing practice, for example by helping practitioners, public officials, and others better think through and articulate issues of design and outcomes, thus enabling them to garner more support for public deliberation activities. In addition, by identifying what remains to be learned about public deliberation, practitioners and public officials may be inspired to connect with scholars to conduct research and evaluations of their efforts.

Evaluation Models

Author : George F. Madaus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400966695
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Evaluation Models written by George F. Madaus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempting fonnally to evaluate something involves the evaluator coming to grips with a number of abstract concepts such as value, merit, worth, growth, criteria, standards, objectives, needs, nonns, client, audience, validity, reliability, objectivity, practical significance, accountability, improvement, process, pro duct, fonnative, summative, costs, impact, infonnation, credibility, and - of course - with the tenn evaluation itself. To communicate with colleagues and clients, evaluators need to clarify what they mean when they use such tenns to denote important concepts central to their work. Moreover, evaluators need to integrate these concepts and their meanings into a coherent framework that guides all aspects of their work. If evaluation is to lay claim to the mantle of a profession, then these conceptualizations of evaluation must lead to the conduct of defensible evaluations. The conceptualization of evaluation can never be a one-time activity nor can any conceptualization be static. Conceptualizations that guide evaluation work must keep pace with the growth of theory and practice in the field. Further, the design and conduct of any particular study involves a good deal of localized conceptualization.

Philippine Democracy Assessment

Author : Edna A. Co
Publisher : Ateneo University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789715350297
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Philippine Democracy Assessment written by Edna A. Co and published by Ateneo University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines two indicators of Philippine democracy, namely, elections and political parties. It looks closely at the democratic principles and values of participation, authorization, representation, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, and solidarity as these coalesce into the Philippine electoral institutions. The assessment powerfully scrutinizes these universal principles of democracy as they are embedded in a complex web of politics and culture, which makes reforms challenging indeed. Democrats and scholars of democracy will find this book worthwhile.

The Quality of Democracy

Author : Guillermo O'Donnell
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268160678
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Quality of Democracy written by Guillermo O'Donnell and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, Guillermo O’Donnell taught a seminar at the University of Notre Dame on democratic theory. One of the questions explored in this class was whether it is possible to define and determine the “quality” of democracy. Jorge Vargas Cullell, a student in this course, returned to his native country of Costa Rica, formed a small research team, and secured funding for undertaking a “citizen audit” of the quality of democracy in Costa Rica. This pathbreaking volume contains O’Donnell’s qualitative theoretical study of the quality of democracy and Vargas Cullell’s description and analysis of the empirical data he gathered on the quality of democracy in Costa Rica. It also includes twelve short, scholarly reflections on the O’Donnell and Cullell essays. The primary goal of this collection is to present the rationale and methodology for implementing a citizen audit of democracy. This book is an expression of a growing concern among policy experts and academics that the recent emergence of numerous democratic regimes, particularly in Latin America, cannot conceal the sobering fact that the efficacy and impact of these new governments vary widely. These variations, which range from acceptable to dismal, have serious consequences for the people of Latin America, many of whom have received few if any benefits from democratization. Attempts to gauge the quality of particular democracies are therefore not only fascinating intellectual exercises but may also be useful practical guides for improving both old and new democracies. This book will make important strides in addressing the increasing practical and academic concerns about the quality of democracy. It will be required reading for political scientists, policy analysts, and Latin Americanists.