Government and Opposition in Guyana

Food and Nutrition Security Strategy for Guyana GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA

Government - Opposition Relations in Pakistan : Divergent Perceptions on Nation - building

Government-Opposition relations is an important area of study to understand the political development in any country but in Pakistan it has not yet caught the attention of historians and writers. Most of the scholars are focusing on the behavior of government or political parties, which gives only a partial picture of the real situation. Both government and opposition as contenders of power pla...

Retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for government and opposition

Retrospective voting is arguably one of the most important mechanisms of representative democracy, and whether or not the public holds the government accountable for its policy performance has been extensively studied. In this paper, we test whether retrospective voting extends to parties in the opposition, that is whether and how parties' past performance evaluations affect their vote, regardl...

Threat and Repression: The Non-Linear Relationship Between Government and Opposition Violence SCOTT

An understanding of the causes of political repression has continually eluded researchers for the past decade. We argue that much of this can be tied to the theoretical specifications of the models employed. We developed a decision-theoretic model that predicts the level of repression used by governments to suppress political opposition. We believe that analysis of repression needs to include t...

Immunization Program Evaluation in Guyana

In September 2008, a team conducted an international evaluation of Guyana’s immunization program (EPI) to assess its strengths and weaknesses, and its capacity to accommodate new vaccine introduction. This evaluation also assessed the achievements that have occurred since the first EPI evaluation conducted in May 2000. Guyana is divided into 10 administrative regions. Four of them are classifie...