Topic - Democratization

This page summarizes Government Innovators Network content about Democratization.

This section provides information on the spread of democracy throughout the world, the connection between democracy and economic well being, dictatorships and the barriers to democracy, efforts by the United States and other countries to engage in nation building, and the receptiveness to various cultures to the idea of democracy.

moreRelated Awards

Democratic Consultation (61%)
Innovations and Excellence in Local Chinese Governance in China
April 8, 2005

Intra-party Democracy at the Municipal, Township, and Village Levels (51%)
Innovations and Excellence in Local Chinese Government
2008

Building Grass-Roots Democracy (45%)
Innovations and Exellence in Local Chinese Governance

Data Feeds: Democratization of Government Data (39%)
Innovations in American Government Awards
2009

Democratization of Information on Public Accounts (37%)
The Public Management and Citizenship Programme in Brazil
June 15, 2005

Direct Election of Chinese Communist Party Officials to the Village Team (37%)
Innovations and Excellence in Local Chinese Governance

System of Citizen Participation of San Juan de Lurigancho (37%)
The Participation and Local Management Program in Peru

moreMost Relevant News

How Should U.S. Government Apportion the Right to Pollute? (59%)
Scientific American
May 15, 2009

Congressional Democrats near agreement on budget (58%)
WTOP Radio (D.C.)
April 24, 2009

In Iceland, Trying to Reprogram Government (53%)
OhMyGov!
November 13, 2009

Climate Change For Social Innovation (51%)
nuPOLIS
July 22, 2009

Hate Calculus? Try Counting Cow Carbon (50%)
The Wall Street Journal
September 18, 2009

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moreMost Relevant Documents

Democratic Transformation and Conflict Management: The Korean Experience of Dual Democratization (100%)
Han, San-Jin
Global Forum on Reinventing Government
February 1, 2005

Latin American Regional Forum of the Global Network of Government Innovators (90%)
Merilee S. Grindle, Alex Keyssar, Gowher Rizvi, and various authors. Jessica Crewe, ed.
Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation and EGAP/ ITESM
August 30, 2007

Frontiers of Innovation Conference: Celebrating 20 Years of Innovation in Government (89%)

Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
May 31, 2008

How Smart and Tough are Democracies? (85%)
Alexander Downes
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government. International Security
May 14, 2009

Democracy & Constitutionalism in South Asia: The Bangladesh Experience (80%)
Gowher Rizvi
Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
2005

Democratic Accountability: The Third Sector and All (79%)
Robert E. Goodin
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, John F. Kennedy School of Government
August 1, 2003

Arab Regional Forum of Government Innovators (78%)
Gowher Rizvi and multiple authors. Jessica Crewe, ed.
Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Dubai School of Government
November 1, 2006

moreRelated Multimedia

Innovations in Structure, Law, Policy for Democratic Governance in Divided Societies (71%)
April 1, 2005

Innovations in Citizen Involvement (58%)
April 1, 2005

Innovations in Service Delivery Aimed at Reaching the Poor and Excluded (53%)
April 1, 2005

The Innovations Process (53%)
April 1, 2005

Democratic Global Governance (51%)
December 2, 2003

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