Does IDEA focus on emerging democracies?
IDEA considers that democracy is a process which is never complete – long established democracies need to adapt their political systems to changing circumstances and new challenges, for example to enhance participation and accountability. IDEA does tend to focus on the problems faced by newer or emerging democracies, where problems of overcoming deep rooted conflict are especially daunting or where there are particular needs to access comparative information and build capacity in public institutions. However, IDEA’s work is often of relevance to all kinds of democracies, for example on the uses of quotas to enhance women’s political participation or the applications of direct democracy or the ways of achieving transparency in political party finance. IDEA’s well known methodology on Democracy Assessment was tested on countries as varied as Bangladesh and Italy, Malawi and New Zealand.
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