Part II Part II: Reinforcing Freedom and Establishing Good Governance Section 2: The State of Freedom and Governance in Arab Countries

Part II Reinforcing Freedom and Establishing Good Governance Section 4: Towards Reinforcing Freedom and Establishing Good Governance in the Arab Countries

Our assessment of the state of freedom and governance, coupled with the advanced explanation of the deficit in freedom and good govern-ance (chapters 3-6) enable us to attempt answering the historic question raised at the end of chapter1: could the future bear out a trajectory that would lead Arab societies to enjoy freedom and good governance traversing the required process of historical strug...

Part II Reinforcing Freedom and Establishing Good Governance Section 1: Analytical Framework: Freedom, Good Governance and Human Development

Freedom and Governance in Arab Countries at the Beginning of the Third Millennium: Some Problematic Issues. FREEDOM AND GOVERNANCE IN ARAB COUNTRIES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM: SOME PROBLEMATIC

In Arab countries, the model of comprehensive freedom and the model of good governance guaranteeing such freedom both face significant conceptual and practical challenges. A combination of global, regional and local circumstances accounts for this. Based on the adopted understanding of freedom, the present chapter briefly discusses some of these issues, examined in more detail in subsequent cha...

The role of the free press in promoting democratization, good governance, and human development (*)

Synopsis: What is the role of the free press in strengthening good governance, democracy and human development? To explore these issues, Part I presents the analytical framework, develops the core testable propositions, and summarizes the previous research literature on the topic. Part II outlines the comparative framework, evidence, and research design. This study utilizes a large-N cross-sect...

رابطه کیفیت حکمرانی با سلامت در کشورهای منطقه جنوب غربی آسیا

Introduction: The role of good governance as a key to development effectiveness has been emphasized in recent years. It has been argued that merely allocating public resources for the right goods and services may not lead to desirable outcomes if budget institutions–involving the budget formulation, execution and monitoring–are malfunctioning. In a way that merely allocating budget resources fo...