Focusing on electoral system reform,the participation of women,and the development of political parties,the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) discusses the potential for these

This article discusses the elections that were held in 1993 to elect the lower house of parliament,called the Chamber of Deputies,in Jordan for the second time since the onset of liberalization in the

The Expert Group Meeting on Monitoring Progress on Governance amid Arab Political Transformation,organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in Beirut,Lebanon,on 11-12

This paper,reviews the shortcomings of previous initiatives,and propose an alternate plan for realizing decentralization. Rather than focus on legal and constitutional changes,as previous schemes have