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Approaches

UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré (UN Human Rights Council, Geneva)

Human rights: topic guide

Community meeting in Indonesia (Photo: Nugroho Nurdikiawan Sunjoyo / World Bank)

Problem-driven iterative approaches: helpdesk report

Political Economy Methodologies

Helpdesk Report
  • Huma Haider
January 2008

Traditional concepts of political economy have focused on top down, macro-level approaches that examine institutions and its rules. More recently, ‘institutional economics’ and other methodologies have emphasised the need for a bottom up, micro-level, ‘game theory’ approach that looks at individual interactions and individual incentives to follow institutional rules. This is of ...» more

Governance in Tribal Environments

Helpdesk Report
  • Seema Khan
December 2007

This query has been able to identify very few resources that focus specifically on governance systems within tribal societies. However there is a wider body of literature which discusses traditional structures of authority and leadership. Even this, however, focusses mainly on democratisation and decentralisation processes. These sources agree that in many countries, the ...» more

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