Southern Europe's Institutional Decline

Improving Institutional Support to Promote Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa

This paper looks at institutional issues which influence support for livelihoods. It builds in particular on two significant pieces of work in Africa, research carried out in Southern Africa by Khanya (And for this it draws on Goldman et al (2000a and b)), and an evaluation of UNDP’s Global SL Programme, as well as Khanya’s other work in a total of 13 African countries. Much of this work has us...

Predictors of institutional delivery in Sodo town, Southern Ethiopia

Methods: A cross-sectional study was used to look at 844 women who had given birth in the previous five years in Sodo town. The study employed a multistage-sampling scheme. Codes were given for all identified women in selected kebeles (neighbourhoods) and a simple randomsampling technique was used after generating random numbers using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). SPSS was...

Siberian Pine Decline and Mortality in Southern Siberian

The decline of communist power: Elements of a theory of institutional change

There is considerable irony in the current search for the causes of the rapid political changes sweeping the communist world after 1988. In retrospect, it is not hard to single out a number of macrosocietal trends that led eventually to regime change: economic stagnation and consumer deprivation, deeply eroded commitment to official ideology and the growth of widespread cynicism, the corruption...

Debating the Decline of Traditional Politics and the Rise of Extra - Institutional Participation

Research on political participation has suggested that young people in western countries have become gradually disengaged from conventional politics. While traditional repertoires of participation have been declining, recent research also found that young people are relatively active in civic arenas and have become more prone to engage in extra-institutional forms of political participation. On...