Civil Society Organization Participation in Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Implementation

Albania's radical agrarian reform.

The agrarian reform in Albania included free distribution of land to rural households and the complete break up of the former collective and state farms. These key features of the Albanian reform are in sharp contrast with other Central and Eastern European countries. Our paper explains the choice of the Albanian agricultural privatization and land reform process and the radical decollectivizat...

Civil Society Participation in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

Civil Society, New Media and Participation in Germany

This paper discusses the relation between eParticipation and civil society in Germany using a theoretical framework based on three arenas of political communication: the traditional political system, the mass-media system, and the civil society public space. Currently in Germany the traditional political system prevails and funds research about representative oriented eParticipation activities....

Whither agrarian reform in South Africa?

Comprehensive School Reform: The Implementation Gap

U nder pressure to improve s t ud e nt a c h ie ve me nt , schools throughout the nation have, over the past 20 years, turned to comprehensive school reform (CSR). CSR is based on the idea that a school should have a coherent educational strategy that addresses all aspects of its operations and aligns them in a well-functioning delivery system. Hundreds of CSR models have been developed. More t...