Publications · Demo University

Year Title Cites

2009 Building Independent Courts in Semi-Democracies, Africa Comparisons Jennifer A. Widner · Rule by Law — 2008 Constitution Writing in Post-Conflict Settings Jennifer A. Widner · William & Mary Law Review 124 2005 Africa’s Democratization: A Work in Progress Jennifer A. Widner · Current History 1 2005 Constitution Writing and Conflict Resolution Jennifer A. Widner · The Round Table 65 2004 Building Effective Trust in the Aftermath of Severe Conflict Jennifer A. Widner · When States Fail 30 2003 How Reflection on the American Experience May Inform African Efforts to Build Court Systems and The Rule of Law Jennifer A. Widner · Democratization 2 2001 Are Specialized Courts the Right Approach to Effective Adjudication of Commercial Disputes in Developing Countries? Jennifer A. Widner · The Institutional Foundations of a Market Economy — 2001 Building the Rule of Law Jennifer A. Widner · New York: W. W. Norton 42 2001 Courts and Democracy in Postconflict Transitions: A Social Scientist’s Perspective on the African Case Jennifer A. Widner · American Journal of International Law 48 2001 Crossing (Sub-Field) Borders Jennifer A. Widner · Journal of the International Institute, University of Michigan — 2000 Anglophone Africa Jennifer A. Widner · A Guide to Judicial Independence — 2000 An Impending Literary Drought Jennifer A. Widner · Comparative Politics Section Newsletter, American Political Science Association — 1999 Building Judicial Independence in Africa Jennifer A. Widner · The Self-Restraining State 13 1999 The Courts as a Restraint: The Experience of Tanzania, Uganda, and Botswana Jennifer A. Widner · Investment and Risk in Africa 2 1999 The Impact of Political Science Trends on Our Knowledge Base Jennifer A. Widner · Comparative Politics Section Newsletter, American Political Science Association — 1998 Comment: Diversity, Democratization, and Economic Growth Jennifer A. Widner · World Bank Research Observer — 1998 Comparative Politics and Comparative Law Jennifer A. Widner · The American Journal of Comparative Law 24 1998 Researching Social Capital in Africa Jennifer A. Widner · Africa 87 1997 Political Parties and Civil Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa Jennifer A. Widner · Democracy in Africa 22 1995 Democracy in Kenya: Implications for U.S. Policy Jennifer A. Widner · United States Agency for International Development — 1995 Report of the U.S.-Africa Judicial Exchange Jennifer A. Widner · American Bar Association, the District of Columbia Superior Court, and the National Judicial College — 1995 States and Statelessness in Late Twentieth-Century Africa Jennifer A. Widner · Daedalus 85 1994 Economic Change and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa Jennifer A. Widner · Johns Hopkins University Press 172 1994 Evaluating the Influence of Socio-Cultural Variables on the Performance of Local Governments Jennifer A. Widner · World Bank — 1994 Political Reform in Anglophone and Francophone African Countries Jennifer A. Widner · Economic Change and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa — 1994 Reform Bargains: The Politics of Change Jennifer A. Widner · Development in Asia and Africa: Legacies and Opportunities — 1994 Single Party States and Agricultural Policies: The Cases of Cote d’Ivoire and Kenya Jennifer A. Widner · Comparative Politics 45 1994 Social Capital and Development Policy Jennifer A. Widner · World Bank — 1994 The Rise of Civic Associations Among Farmers in Cote D’Ivoire Jennifer A. Widner · Civil Society and the State in Africa 12 1994 Two Leadership Styles in a Period of Political Liberalization: Houphouet and Moi Jennifer A. Widner · African Studies Review 20 1993 The Discovery of ‘Politics:’ Smallholder Reactions to the Cocoa Crisis of 1989-90 in Cote D’Ivoire Jennifer A. Widner · Hemmed In:Responses to Africa’s Economic Decline — 1993 The Origins of Agricultural Policy in Cote d’Ivoire Jennifer A. Widner · Journal of Development Studies · needs review — 1992 Political Reform in Kenya Jennifer A. Widner · Current History — 1992 The 1990 Elections in Cote d’Ivoire Jennifer A. Widner · Issue 2 1992 The Rise of the Party State in Kenya Jennifer A. Widner · University of California Press 233 1991 Interest Formation in the Informal Sector: Cultural Despair or a Politics of Multiple Allegiances? Jennifer A. Widner · Comparative Political Studies 23 1985 The OAU and Southern African Liberation Jennifer A. Widner · The OAU After Twenty Years —

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2009 · chapter

Building Independent Courts in Semi-Democracies, Africa Comparisons

Rule by Law · Jennifer A. Widner

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Widner, J. “Building Independent Courts in Semi-Democracies, Africa Comparisons,”In Tamir Moustafa and Thomas Ginsburg, eds., Rule by Law, New York: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2009.

Peer reviewed: yes
First author: Widner
Co-authors: none
Subfield: comparative politics
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Reprint or translation: none

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year	2009 (used)
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