Ivar Kolstad & Arne Wiig (2016)
Democratization Vol. 23 , Iss. 7, 2016
While democracy is commonly believed to reduce corruption, there are obvious endogeneity problems in measuring the impact of democracy on corruption. This article attempts to address the endogeneity of democracy by exploiting the thesis that democracies seldom go to war against each other. We instrument for democracy using a dummy variable reflecting whether a country […]
Tina Søreide, Professor, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Norway (2016)
ISBN: 978 1 78471 597 7
The author addresses the role of criminal justice in anti-corruption by investigating assumptions in the classic law and economics approach and debating the underlying criteria for an efficient criminal justice system. Drawing on real life challenges from the policy world, the book combines insights from the literature with updated knowledge about practical law enforcement constraints. […]
Ida Juhasz (University of Bergen) and Marit Skivenes (University of Bergen) (2016)
European Journal of Social Work
This paper examines the significant obstacles that child protection workers in four countries, England, Finland, Norway and the USA (CA), believe they would face at their workplace, in a case of a child removal decision. There are many potential barriers employees may experience in their work practice, either external factors, organizational factors or individual factors, […]
Marit Skivenes (University of Bergen) and June Thoburn (University of East Anglia) (2016)
Children and Youth Services Review
The English language term ‘permanence’ is increasingly used in high income countries as a ‘short-hand’ translation for a complex set of aims around providing stability and family membership for children who need child welfare services and out-of-home care. From a scrutiny of legislative provisions, court judgments, government documents and a public opinion survey on child […]
Jonathan Dickens (University of East Anglia), Jill Berrick (UC Berkely), Tarja Pösö (University of Tampere) and Marit Skivenes (University of Bergen) (2016)
This paper draws on an international comparative study of social work decision making in cases that are on the edge of care order proceedings, involving child protection workers from Finland, Norway, England and the USA (California). It focuses on workers’ responses in an online questionnaire to questions about the use of independent experts to inform […]
B, Camila Gianella, Brian Citro, Evan Lyon, et. al (2016)
Health and Human Rights Journal vol. 18. No. 1.
This special section of Health and Human Rights Journal focuses much-needed attention on tuberculosis (TB) and human rights—particularly the right to health. Even as TB has surpassed HIV as the top infectious disease killer in the world and the global threat from multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) continues to grow, approaches to fighting the disease remain primarily […]
A, Camila Gianella, César Ugarte-Gil, Godofredo Caro, et. al (2016)
Health and Human Rights Journal vol. 18. No. 1.
This article analyzes the factors associated with vulnerability of the Ashaninka, the most populous indigenous Peruvian Amazonian people, to tuberculosis (TB). By applying a human rights-based analytical framework that assesses public policy against human rights standards and principles, and by offering a step-by-step framework for a full assessment of compliance, it provides evidence of the […]
Enforcement of water rights
Bruce Wilson, Camila Gianella, Lara Côrtes (2016)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 9) 4 p.
This brief explores whether the 2010 UN Resolution that explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS) has been followed by changes in the national framework, and in the way countries are reporting on this right to the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Enforcement of water rights
Vikram Kollmanskog (2016)
Gaylaxy. Empowering Expressions (11.09.2016)
In India and worldwide many battles for and against LGBT/queer rights are fought out in the courts. This so-called lawfare is a strategy with potential advantages as well as risks. Overall, Indian LGBT/queer activists seem to have been successful. Since the late 1980s, Lawyers Collective had worked with HIV-affected people and NGOs such as Naz […]
Are Knudsen and Maja Janmyr (2016)
Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Volume 7, Number 3, Winter 2016
Affiliate at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation and Senior Researcher at CMI, Are Knudsen, is together with Maja Janmyr, Steering Committee Member at the Centre and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, the editor of a special issue on Humanitarianism in Refugee Camps in the journal Humanity: An International […]