Programmes and projects
Joint programmes or projects
This research programme is a comparative study of the political economy of elites support and the implementation of pro-poor productive sector initiatives in five countries: Bangladesh, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda.
DIIS researchers involved: Ole Therkildsen (Programme Coordinator), Lars Buur, Lindsay Whitfield.
Individual projects
The study analyzes change in the social accountability relationship between local government, farmer institutions and private providers of agricultural services over the past decade and the impact on agricultural technology development and rural poverty reduction.
DIIS researchers involved: Esbern Friis-Hansen.
As part of the Research Programme on Elites and the New Poverty Agenda (ENPA), this project is an examination the role and nature of elites in a sub-sector of Bangladesh second most important export industry, frozen fish foods.
DIIS researchers involved: Neil Webster.
As part of the Research Programme on Elites and the New Poverty Agenda (ENPA), this project is an examination of the role and nature of elites in Bangladesh most important export industry.
DIIS researchers involved: Neil Webster.
A long term study of the evolving forms of participatory and representative democracy in local politics in the State of West Bengal, India.
DIIS researchers involved: Neil Webster.
As part of the Research Programme on Elites, Production and Poverty (EPP), this project examines the role and nature of elites in Mozambique’s most successfully rehabilitated agro-processing sector.
DIIS researchers involved: Lars Buur.
As part of the Research Programme on Elites, Production and Poverty (EPP), this project examines the role and nature of elites in Mozambique’s Small Scale Fish sector.
DIIS researchers involved: Lars Buur.
The book project is a result of a postdoctoral project initiated in 2001, concerning justice enforcement and vigilantism in South African townships during democratic transition.
DIIS researchers involved: Lars Buur.
Post.Doc projects
This research analyzes the impact of transnational capitalist practices on the political authority of state elite in the current post-colonial setting of foreign mining investments in Tanzania.
DIIS researchers involved: France Bourgouin.
The project explores how current state efforts to decentralise security provisions and include ordinary citizens in policing influence conditions of citizenship and state authority in transitional democracies.
DIIS researchers involved: Helene Maria Kyed.
PhD projects
Decentralisation and Local Governance of Land in Africa. Land Reform Implementation and Citizen Participation in Tanzania.
The project investigates the implementation of the new wave of land reforms which have been passed by Sub-Saharan African countries during the last couple of decades. In 2003 land reforms were underway in more than twenty countries. Reforms are thought to increase security of rights to land and enhance economic growth. Because of their novelty, however, our knowledge about current land reforms is limited.
DIIS researchers involved: Rasmus Hundsbęk.
The PhD project focuses on liberalization reforms of the cotton sector in Benin and how different elite groups are influenced by the reforms and vice versa. A central part of the study is the relations and networks between different elites.
DIIS researchers involved: Tina Maria Jensen.
The PhD project looks at local level implementation of Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone, specifically in Kono District, the diamond rich area of the country.
DIIS researchers involved: Peter Albrecht.
The PhD project explores young people’s experiences of involving in secondary schooling and how this informs the construction of their future aspirations and their becoming citizens in a period of political transition in Nepal
DIIS researchers involved: Birgitte Lind Petersen
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